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Periods and Plots: A Postscript to Bentham’s Critique of the Declaration of Independence
Shortly after uploading Jeremy Bentham’s critique of the Declaration of Independence, I got around to reading the discussion in the New York Times of Danielle Allen’s questioning of the period that appears immediately after the words “life, liberty, and the … Continue reading
Of Rights and Witches: Bentham’s Critique of the Declaration of Independence
It is not surprising that friends of the Enlightenment tend to assume that the Enlightenment was generally friendly towards the American Revolution. Richard Price had, after all, been an energetic supporter of the Colonial cause and, like Joseph Priestley, saw … Continue reading
Foucault, the “History of Thought,” and the Question of Enlightenment
My previous post examined how, during the last eighteen months of his life, Foucault repeatedly drew a distinction between the “history of thought” in which he was engaged and more conventional (though, in his view, “entirely legitimate“) approaches employed within … Continue reading
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“The Radical Enlightenment” – Diametros Volume 40
Volume 40 of the online philosophy journal Diametros (available here) focuses on “The Radical Enlightenment.” The main event is the latest in the ongoing series of exchanges between Jonathan Israel and Margaret C. Jacob, along with discussions of Israel’s work by Sebastian Gardner … Continue reading
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On Michel Foucault’s Distinction between the “History of Ideas” and the “History of Thought”
In a May 1984 interview with Paul Rabinow, Michel Foucault characterized his general approach as follows: For a long time, I have been trying to see if it would be possible to describe the history of thought as distinct both … Continue reading
Foucault on “Enlightenment” in Discipline and Punish
Discussing Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish (or, to be more accurate, that portions of it that turn up in The Foucault Reader) in a seminar I taught this spring, I was struck, once again, by a sentence that reminded me … Continue reading
Zöllner on Prejudices and Superstitions: An Article from the German Museum
Introduction to Zöllner, “On Prejudices and Superstitions” While Johann Friedrich Zöllner (1753-1804) is hardly a major thinker he deserves a bit more attention than he’s gotten in the Anglophone world. He was, after all, the person who asked the question … Continue reading
Adorno on Kant and Enlightenment (in 1959)
Over the last decade or so, the publication and translation of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France have led to a broader reconsideration of how his work ought to be understood. But, unless I’ve missed something, the publication … Continue reading
Light, Truth, and Caricature (without Consolation): Regarding James Gillray
A Peep into the Cave of Jacobinism — “Magna est Veritas Praevalebit” was the first work by the great eighteenth-century London caricaturist James Gillray to catch my attention. As chance would have it, I encountered it in precisely the same … Continue reading
Hans Blumenberg on Light & Truth, with Some Thoughts on Eighteenth-century Frontispieces
There’s no good reason why it took me so long to get around to reading Hans Blumenberg’s Paradigms for a Metaphorology — a 1960 contribution to the Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte that has been available in translation since 2010.1 I’d read … Continue reading
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