Rethinking the Enlightenment: Between History, Philosophy, and Politics

by Henry Martyn Lloyd (Contribution by), Dennis C. Rasmussen (Contribution by), Matthew Sharpe (Contribution by), James Schmidt (Contribution by), Karen Green (Contribution by)

Overview

One of the most persistent, troubling, and divisive of the ideological divisions within modernity is the struggle over the Enlightenment and its legacy. Much of the difficulty is owed to a general failure among scholars to consider how history, philosophy, and politics work together. Rethinking the Enlightenment bridges these disciplinary divides. Recent work by historians has now called into question many of the clichés that still dominate scholarly understandings of the Enlightenment’s literary, philosophical, and political culture. Yet this work has so far had little impact on the reception of the Enlightenment, its key players, debates, and ideas in the disciplines that most rely on its legacy, namely, philosophy and political science. Edited by Geoff Boucher and Henry Martyn Lloyd, Rethinking the Enlightenment makes the case for connecting new work in intellectual history with fresh understandings of ‘Continental’ philosophy and political theory. In doing so, in this collection moves towards a critical self-understanding of the present.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498558136
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	12/29/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	280
File size:	541 KB

About the Author

Geoff Boucher is associate professor at Deakin University.

Henry Martyn Lloyd is a junior research fellow in Enlightenment studies at the University of Sydney.
Matthew Sharpe is associate professor of philosophy at Deakin University. He is the coauthor of Philosophy as a Way of Life: History, Dimensions, Directions (with M. Ure) and author of Camus, Philosophe: To Return to Our Beginnings as well as articles on the history of philosophy, and political, critical and psychoanalytic theory.
Marguerite La Caze is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Queensland.

Genevieve Lloyd is Professor Emerita at the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and was the first female Professor of Philosophy appointed in Australia.

Table of Contents

1: What is it to Rethink the Enlightenment?
Henry Martyn Lloyd
2: Contemporary Political Theory as an Anti-Enlightenment Project
Dennis C. Rasmussen
3: What of All the Others? On Recovering the Enlightenment
Matthew Sharpe
4: What Sort of Question Was Kant Answering When He Answered the Question: “What Is Enlightenment?”?
James Schmidt
5: Catharine Macaulay as Critic of Hume
Karen Green
6: The Principled Enlightenment: Condillac, d’Alembert and Principle Minimalism
Peter R. Anstey
7: Reason and Rationality within the “Enlightenment of Sensibility”; Or, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, and French Philosophy’s First “Linguistic Turn”
Henry Martyn Lloyd
8: Knowing Otherwise: An Ethics of Feeling
Daniel Brewer
9: Emotional Enlightenment: Kant on Love and the Beautiful
Marguerite La Caze
10: A Road Not Taken: Critical Theory after Dialectic of Enlightenment
Geoff Boucher
11: The Enlightenment: A Signifier of “Western Values”?
Genevieve Lloyd
Contributor Biographies