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Culture & Civilization: The First English Translation of Mendelssohn’s Answer to the Question “What is Enlightenment?” (Part II)
As should be apparent by now, my collection of hobby horses includes an interest in old translations of now-familiar texts.1 The interest is not entirely idiosyncratic, nor is it entirely irrelevant to my labors in that open-ended field known as the … Continue reading
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Tagged Begriffsgeschichte, German Museum, History of Concepts, Moses Mendelssohn, translation
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Review of Samuel Fleischacker, What is Enlightenment?
My review of Samuel Fleischacker’s What is Enlightenment? (Routledge, 2013) has now been published on Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Readers of this blog will likely find Fleischacker’s work of interest and my comments on it somewhat predictable. I can only hope that, like Tristram … Continue reading
Moses Mendelssohn, “On Enlightening the Mind”
The text that follows is the first English translation of Moses Mendelssohn’s 1784 response to the question “What is enlightenment?” The anonymous translation appeared in 1800 in the second volume of The German Museum, a short-lived journal edited by the … Continue reading
The First English Translation of Moses Mendelssohn’s Answer to the Question “What is Enlightenment?”: Part I
Last summer I wrote a series of posts on the choices involved in translating Kant’s answer to the question “What is Enlightenment?” into English. Attempting something similar for Moses Mendelssohn’s answer to the same question, which appeared three months before … Continue reading
Tracking the Reception of Kant’s Answer to the Question “What is Enlightenment?”
As Dan Edelstein once observed, scholars have gotten into the habit of using Kant’s 1784 to the question “What is enlightenment?” as a convenient “one-stop shop for defining the Enlightenment.”1 There is a tendency to assume that because Kant was … Continue reading
A Note on a Recently Published Letter from Isaiah Berlin on the “Counter-Enlightenment”
Having concluded a series of posts on the history of the concept of counter-Enlightenment, I’d planned to move on to other things. But, in the immortal words of Michael Corleone, “Just when I thought I was out … they pull … Continue reading
Isaiah Berlin and the “Counter-Enlightenment”: A Reassessment (Fabricating the “Counter-Enlightenment” — Conclusion)
Since the middle of October I have been attempting to trace the history of the concept “counter-Enlightenment.” I set out on this venture convinced that Zeev Sternhell’s account of the history was wrong and confident that the sketch that I … Continue reading
Turning One
A year ago, I accidentally launched Persistent Enlightenment. I’d been playing around for quite some time with the idea of using WordPress as a way to store research notes and, as part of the experiment, had set up a private blog called … Continue reading
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Charles W. Morris on Empiricism and the Counter-Enlightenment (Fabricating the “Counter-Enlightenment” Part IV)
The month-long hiatus since my last post can, in part, be attributed to the flood of papers that arrived in the wake of my discussion of English uses of the term “counter-Enlightenment” between 1908 and 1942 and the ensuing holiday … Continue reading
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