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Horkheimer, Adorno, and the Los Angeles Times: A Report on Exilforschung in the Age of Digital Accessibility
The first page of the “Real Estate and Industry” section of the Los Angeles Times of Sunday, September 24, 1940 is likely to confuse even those of us who are old enough to be familiar with the conventions for dealing with newspapers … Continue reading
Cassirer on Enlightenment in the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (Part 2)
Back in October, I posted the first part of a discussion of Ernst Cassirer’s account of the Enlightenment in the first edition of the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. That post was concerned chiefly with trying to make sense of why and … Continue reading
The 1914 Christmas Truces as History and Memory
Over the last several weeks, the British supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has been running an advertisement on television and in movie theaters in which, over the course of its three minutes and twenty seconds, the essential fragments of what has become … Continue reading
Friedrich Gedike on the Origin of Christmas Gifts (1784)
The Berlinische Monatsschrift is best known as the place of publication of Immanuel Kant’s answer to the question “What is Enlightenment?” Readers of this blog are likely to know it as well as the place where the question that Kant … Continue reading
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Dan Edelstein on Enlightenment Scholarship and Dirty Quantification
While I continue to dig my way out my various other obligations, readers should check out Dan Edelstein’s “Enlightenment Scholarship by the Numbers: dfr.jstor.org, Dirty Quantification, and the Future of the Lit Review”, now available at Republics of Letters. Smart stuff … Continue reading
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Ernst Cassirer on Enlightenment in the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (Part 1)
Ernst Cassirer’s Philosophie der Aufklärung (1932) is one of the handful of books that everyone who works on the Enlightenment must, at the very least, pretend to have read. In contrast, the entry Cassirer wrote for the first edition of … Continue reading
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Will Thomas on Simon Schaffer and “Enlightened Automata”
Apologies for the uncharacteristically long hiatus between posts: the resumption of teaching and the need to discharge a few other claims on what Kant would have classified as the “private use” of what counts as my “reason” have kept me from … Continue reading
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The Soldier, the Citizen, and the Clergyman, with a Postscript on Professors: Kant on Private Reason (Part II)
My previous post examined how Kant distinguished “public” and “private” uses of reason and discussed the differing ways in which he drew this contrast. This one will focus more narrowly on the three examples he offered: an officer following orders … Continue reading
Kant and the “Private” Use of Reason
Readers of Kant’s little essay on the question “What is enlightenment?” have long recognized that the distinction between “public” and “private” uses of reason is both central to its argument and rather odd. Those perplexed by the distinction are in … Continue reading
Rights, “Unalienable” or “Inalienable”?: A Concluding Philological Postscript
[This version has been revised since it was initially posted; see below] Since my posting of Bentham’s critique of the “Declaration of Independence” last Thursday, traffic on this blog has increased dramatically. While I appreciate the attention, I suspect that it will … Continue reading
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