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Fox News, the Enlightenment, and G. K. Chesterton
I’m about as familiar with the Fox News Channel as I am with golf: I know that people watch the former and I’m aware that people play the latter and when I go to the local YMCA I wind up … Continue reading
Why It Wouldn’t Have Mattered if Isaiah Berlin used Ngrams
I’d been planning on posting the final part of my discussion of the exchange of letters between Isaiah Berlin and Karl Popper on liberty and enlightenment, but various commitments have conspired to delay my posting of that discussion until later … Continue reading
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Tagged Begriffsgeschichte, History of Concepts, Isaiah Berlin, Ngrams
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Isaiah Berlin & Karl Popper on Liberty & Enlightenment (Part II)
Last Sunday (which, for those of us who live in the Boston area, seems like the distant past), I began an examination of Karl Popper’s comments on Isaiah Berlin’s 1958 lecture “Two Concepts of Liberty” in his letter to Berlin … Continue reading
Edes and Gill, the “Patriot Printers” & Locke’s Second Treatise
I published this post about three hours before the bombing in Boston as the second of two posts marking the Patriots’ Day holiday. In the wake of the attacks, I pulled both posts off the site. I’ve replaced the first … Continue reading
On the Boston Bombings
Yesterday morning, I published a post entitled “Liberty, Freedom, and nGrams! (A Patriots’ Day Special)” in which I explained that, though I try to limit my postings on this site to one a week, I’ve made exceptions to the rule: … Continue reading
Karl Popper & Isaiah Berlin on Liberty & Enlightenment (Part I)
On October 31, 1958, Isaiah Berlin assumed the Chichele Chair of Social and Political Theory at Oxford and delivered his inaugural lecture, “Two Concepts of Liberty.” The lecture — which is now regarded as one of the more important contributions … Continue reading
Habermas on Publicity II (Re: Arendt, Koselleck, and Schmitt)
It is hardly surprising that Immanuel Kant plays a prominent role in Habermas’s discussion of the vicissitudes of what — for reasons that I’ve discussed in a previous post — might best be termed “bourgeois publicity.” As Habermas notes at … Continue reading
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Tagged Arendt, Begriffsgeschichte, Habermas, History of Concepts, Koselleck, Schmitt
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Publicity & the Public Sphere – Reading Habermas as a Historian of Concepts
As I was getting ready for a discussion of Jürgen Habermas’ Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere in a seminar that I’m teaching on Enlightenment and its Critics, I recalled an incident from the distant past. A colleague returned from … Continue reading
Deeper into the “Shallow Enlightenment” (Ludwig Tieck, George J. Adler, and Herman Meville)
Before resuming last week’s exploration of the “shallow Enlightenment,” we should take stock of where things stand. What we saw last week was that “shallow” was but one of a number of pejoratives that have been marshaled against the Enlightenment. … Continue reading
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Tagged Begriffsgeschichte, George Adler, History of Concepts, Melville, OED, philosophy, romanticism
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Pursuing the “Shallow Enlightenment” (Part I: Nineteenth-Century Trash-Talk)
In my efforts to make sense of the various pejoratives hurled at the Enlightenment, the one whose depths I’ve yet to plumb is (oddly enough) “shallow.” The term surfaces in a number of places and there’s a lot to be … Continue reading
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Tagged Begriffsgeschichte, Cassirer, History of Concepts, Ngrams, OED, romanticism
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