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Tag Archives: Kant
Kant for Kids (Notes on a Survivor)
Tracing the reception of Kant’s phrase “selbstverschudeten Unmündigkeit” (“self-incurred immaturity” is the current consensus on how to translate it), I stumbled on one of those things that reminds us about the books, and the worlds, we have lost: This peculiar … 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
The Words We Have Lost: Translating Kant on Enlightenment
What might have been the most famous words ever written about the Enlightenment go like this: “Aufklärung ist der Ausgang des Menschen aus seiner selbstverschuldeten Unmündigkeit.” The problem, however, is that the author of these words — Immanuel Kant (of … Continue reading
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
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
Sapere Aude: Incipe!
To begin, let’s go back to Kant again. If there’s ever a second edition of What is Enlightenment?: Eighteenth-Century Answers and Twentieth-Century Questions (University of California Press, 1996), I’d like to make two changes in my translation of Kant’s answer … Continue reading
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