Tag Archives: Habermas

Out of Unmündigkeit – Final Thoughts on Translating Kant on Enlightenment

Posted on June 23, 2013 by

I will take my leave from this series of posts on the translation of the first sentence of Kant’s answer to the question “What is enlightenment?” with a consideration of how translators have handled Ausgang,the word that characterizes the passage … Continue reading →

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Revisiting the “Enlightenment Project,” Inspired by Anthony Pagden and Armed with Some Ngrams

Posted on May 15, 2013 by

I turned in the last of my grades for the semester at the start of the week and was reminded, once again, that if April is the cruelest month, May — at least for academics — must be the kindest: … Continue reading →

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Habermas on Publicity II (Re: Arendt, Koselleck, and Schmitt)

Posted on April 7, 2013 by

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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Publicity & the Public Sphere – Reading Habermas as a Historian of Concepts

Posted on March 31, 2013 by

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 →

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