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Cassirer on Enlightenment in the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences – Part III: Into the Archive
Last week was spring break at my university and, breaking with my usual custom of trying to find a warm climate in which to do research, I decided to stay home and make some headway on the pile of overdue articles … 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
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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Foucault and Habermas on Kant, Modernity, and Enlightenment (The Debate that Never Was, Part IV)
The aim of my series of posts on the so-called “Foucault/Habermas Debate” has been to move the focus away from the discussion of the differences in their general approaches and return it to the more modest concerns that lay at … Continue reading
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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