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Tag Archives: Begriffsgeschichte
Enlightenment and Ngram Wild Card Searches
A link on my Twitter feed this morning alerted me to Ben Zimmer’s article in the Atlantic on a new (and welcome) feature that Google has added to the Ngram: wild card searches. Naturally, I thought I’d try it out with … Continue reading
Fabricating the “Counter-Enlightenment” — Part 1: Nietzsche’s Role
When asked “Who invented the word ‘counter-Enlightenment?” Isaiah Berlin replied I don’t know who invented the concept …. Someone must have said it. Could it be myself? I should be somewhat surprised. Perhaps I did. I really have no idea.1 … Continue reading
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Tagged Begriffsgeschichte, Counter-Enlightenment, History of Concepts, Isaiah Berlin, Nietzsche, romanticism
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Securing the Borders: On the Genealogy of Scientism (Part II)
Leon Wieseltier’s response to Steven Pinker’s rejoinder to Wieseltier’s earlier attempt to defend the humanities from the depredations of what he terms “scientism” prompted me, in my previous post, to offer a few thoughts on the history of this peculiar … Continue reading
Making Sense of “Aufklärung” – Translating Kant, Part III
I began this series of posts more or less as a lark, thinking that I’d look at how my fellow translators of Kant’s response to the question “What is enlightenment?” handled the opening sentence. But this exercise turned out to … Continue reading
Translating Kant on Enlightenment: Two Nineteenth-Century Translations
As sketched last week, my plan had been to consider nine different translations of Kant’s essay on the question “What is Enlightenment?” and see how the translation of the crucial terms in essay’s opening sentence changed over the last two … 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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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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Persistent Enlightenment 