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Tag Archives: History of Concepts
The Source List for the 1790 Table of Usages of the Term “Aufklärung”
What follows is the “List of Examples” that appears at the start of Part II of the “Kritischer Versuch über das Wort Aufklärung (Beschluss),” Deutsche Monatschrift III (November 1790): 205–37. Whenever possible, I have added links to the full text … Continue reading
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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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On Michel Foucault’s Distinction between the “History of Ideas” and the “History of Thought”
In a May 1984 interview with Paul Rabinow, Michel Foucault characterized his general approach as follows: For a long time, I have been trying to see if it would be possible to describe the history of thought as distinct both … Continue reading
Hans Blumenberg on Light & Truth, with Some Thoughts on Eighteenth-century Frontispieces
There’s no good reason why it took me so long to get around to reading Hans Blumenberg’s Paradigms for a Metaphorology — a 1960 contribution to the Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte that has been available in translation since 2010.1 I’d read … Continue reading
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Tagged Begriffsgeschichte, Hans Blumenberg, History of Concepts, James Gillray, Light
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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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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
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
“Counter-Enlightenment” in English (1908-1942) (Fabricating the “Counter-Enlightenment” Part III)
The two previous posts in this series examined nineteenth and early twentieth-century German uses of the term “Gegenaufklärung” and argued, contra Zeev Sternell, that the term does not seem to have been generally adopted as a convention for referring to … Continue reading
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Tagged Begriffsgeschichte, Counter-Enlightenment, History of Concepts, Isaiah Berlin
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Fabricating the “Counter-Enlightenment” — Part II: German Uses 1875 – 1925
The first post in this series examined Zeev Sternhell’s claim that Nietzsche “probably invented” the term Gegenaufklärung and noted that (1) Nietzsche’s one use of the term is difficult to reconcile with the subsequent usage of the term that we … Continue reading
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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
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