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Book SynopsisRethinking the Enlightenment connects new work in intellectual history with fresh understandings of Continental philosophy and political theory. The collection bridges the disciplinary divides between the Enlightenment as understood in history, philosophy, and politics and moves towards a critical self-understanding of the present.
Table of Contents1: 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
