Inspired by the enormously helpful “finding aid” on the consistently insightful history of science blog Ether Wave Propaganda, here is a guide to a few of the topics that I’ve been exploring here. For others, consult the tag cloud to the right.
On the History of the Concept of “Enlightenment”
- The Enlightenment, the OED, and the History of Concepts, with Ngrams
- Further Thoughts on the “the Enlightenment,” the OED, the History of Concepts
- Pursuing the “Shallow Enlightenment” (Part I: Nineteenth-Century Trash Talk)
- Deeper into the “Shallow Enlightenment” (Ludwig Tieck, George J. Adler, and Herman Melville)
- Enlightenment and Ngram Wild Card Searches
- The Fading of “True Enlightenment”
- Hans Blumenberg on Light and Truth, with some Thoughts on Eighteenth-Century Frontispieces
- Light, Truth, and Caricature: Regarding James Gillray
- Ernst Cassirer on the Enlightenment in the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (Part I, Part II, and Part III)
- The Word “Enlightenment”: A German Table of Usages from 1790
- The Source List for the 1790 Table of Usages of the Word “Aufklärung”
On the History of the Concept of “the Counter-Enlightenment”
- Part I: Nietzsche’s Role
- Part II: German Usages 1875-1925
- Part III: Counter-Enlightenment in English (1908-1942)
- Part IV: Charles W. Morris on Empiricism and Counter-Enlightenment
- Part V: William Barrett, Lionel Trilling, and the “Residual Legatees of the Enlightenment”
- Conclusion: Isaiah Berlin & the “Counter-Enlightenment:” A Reassessment
Americans and the Enlightenment
- Thomas Jefferson, An Epicurean?
- John Quincy Adams: Translator and Anti-Jacobin
- Edes and Gill, the “Patriot Printers” and Locke’s Second Treatise
- Of Rights and Witches: Bentham’s Critique of the Declaration of Independence
- Periods and Plots: A Postscript to Bentham’s Critique of the Declaration of Independence
- Rights, “Unalienable” or “Inalienable”?
- Whittaker Chambers, LIFE Magazine, and the Enlightenment (Part I)
- The Woman with the Corpse in Her Carriage: Whittaker Chambers, Life Magazine, and the Enlightenment (Part 2)
Translating Kant’s Answer to the Question “What is Enlightenment?”
- The Words We Have Lost: Translating Kant on Enlightenment
- Two Nineteenth Century Translations
- Making Sense of Aufklärung
- Voluntary Nonage?
- Out of Unmündigkeit
Kant’s Distinction Between “Public” and “Private” Uses of Reason
- Kant on the “Private” Use of Reason
- The Soldier, the Citizen, and the Clergyman, with a Postscript on Professors
Translating Moses Mendelssohn’s Answer to the Question “What is Enlightenment?”
- Moses Mendelssohn, “On Enlightening the Mind”
- The First English Translation of Moses Mendelssohn’s “What is Enlightenment?” Part I
- “Culture and Civilization”: The First English Translation of Moses Mendelssohn’s Answer to the Question “What is Enlightenment?” Part II
Making Sense of the Dialectic of Enlightenment
- What, If Anything, does Dialectic of Enlightenment have to do with the Enlightenment?
- Enlightenment as “Mass Deception”? — “Culture Industry” in the Dialectic of Enlightenment
- Adorno of Kant and Enlightenment (in 1959)
- “Racket,” “Monopoly,” and the Dialectic of Enlightenment
The American Exile of the Frankfurt School
- Dreyfus, Dieterle, and the Vienna Philharmonic
- Poetry After Auschwitz — What Adorno Didn’t Say
- What Was Theodor Adorno doing in Thomas Mann’s Garden?
- Horkheimer and Adorno, and the Los Angeles Times: A Report on Exilforschung in the Age of Digital Accessibility
- The Making and the Marketing of the Philosophische Fragmente: The Early History of the Dialectic of Enlightenment (Part 1) (Part 2)
The Curious Relationship of Theodor Adorno and Virgil Thomson
- “The True Manuscript in a Bottle” — or, How I Found Theodor Adorno’s “Lost” Translation of the Philosophie der neuen Musik
- Unbolted Manuscripts: On the Curious Relationship of Theodor Adorno and Virgil Thomson
- Theodor Adorno, Dagobert Runes, and the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
- Adorno Considers a Career Change
Habermas and the Concept of Publicity
- Publicity and the Public Sphere — Reading Habermas as a Historian of Concepts
- Habermas on Publicity II (Re: Arendt, Koselleck, and Schmitt)
Foucault, Habermas, and the Debate that Never Was
Foucault and the Enlightenment
- Foucault’s Review of Cassirer’s Philosophy of the Enlightenment
- Foucault on “Enlightenment” in Discipline and Publish
- Foucault’s Distinction between the “History of Ideas” and the “History of Thought”
- Foucault, the “History of Thought” and the Question of Enlightenment
Persistent Enlightenment 