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Book SynopsisContains the first English translations of a group of important eighteenth-century German essays that address the question, 'What is Enlightenment?'. This book includes interpretive essays by historians and philosophers, which examine the origins of eighteenth-century debate on Enlightenment and explore its significance for the present.
Table of ContentsPREFACE I
Introduction: What Is Enlightenment?
A Question, Its Context, and Some Consequences
James Schmidt
Part I. THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DEBATE
1. The Question and Some Answers
What Is to Be Done toward the Enlightenment of the Citizenry? (1783)
Johann Karl Mohsen
On the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (1784)
Moses Mendelssohn
An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (1784)
Immanuel Kant
Thoughts on Enlightenment (1784)
Karl Leonhard Reinhold
A Couple of Gold Nuggets, from the ... Wastepaper,
or Six Answers to Six Questions (1789)
Christoph Martin Wieland
2. The Public Use of Reason
On Freedom of Thought and of the Press: For Princes, Ministers, and Writers (1784)
On Freedom of the Press and Its Limits: For Consideration by Rulers, Censors, and Writers.(l787)
Carl Friedrich Bahrdt
Publicity (1792)
Friedrich Karl von Moser
Reclamation of the Freedom of Thought from the Princes of Europe, Who Have Oppressed It Until Now (1793)
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
3. Faith and Enlightenment
Letter to ChristianJacob Kraus (18 December 1784) ·
Johann Georg Hamann
Metacritique on the Purism of Reason (1784)
Johann Georg Hamann
On Enlightenment: Is It and Could It Be Dangerous to the State, to Religion, or Dangerous in General? A Word to
Be Heeded by Princes, Statesmen, and Clergy (1788)
Andreas Riem
4. The Politics of Enlightenment
Something Lessing Said: A Commentary on Journeys of the Popes(I782)
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
True and False Political Enlightenment (1792)
Friedrich Karl von Moser
On the Influence of Enlightenment on Revolutions (1794)
Johann Heinrich Tuftrunk
Does Enlightenment Cause Revolutions? (1795)
Johann Adam Bergk
Part II. HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS
The Berlin Wednesday Society
Gunter Birtsch
The Subversive Kant: The Vocabulary of "Public" and "Publicity"
John Christian Laursen
On Enlightenment for the Common Man
Jonathan B. Knudsen
Modern Culture Comes of Age: Hamann versus Kant on the Root Metaphor of Enlightenment
Garrett Green
Jacobi's Critique of the Enlightenment
Dale E. Snow
Early Romanticism and the Aujkliirung
Frederick C. Beiser
Progress: Ideas, Skepticism, and CritiqueThe
Heritage of the Enlightenment
Rudolph Vierhaus
Part III. TWENTIETH-CENTURY QUESTIONS
What Is Enlightenment?
Rudiger Bittner
Reason Against Itself: Some Remarks on Enlightenment
Max Horkheimer
What Is Enlightened Thinking?
Georg Picht
What Is Critique?
Michel Foucault
The Unity of Reason in the Diversity oflts Voices
]iirgen Habermas
The Battle of Reason with the Imagination
Hartmut Bohme and Gernot Bohme
The Failure of Kant's Imagination
Jane Kneller
The Gender of Enlightenment
Robin May Schott
Autonomy, Individuality, and Self-Determination
Lewis Hinchman
Enlightened Cosmopolitanism: The Political Perspective
of the Kantian "Sublime"
Kevin Paul Geiman
CONTRIBUTORS TO PARTS II AND III
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
