Kant And The Culture Of Enlightenment

, by DELIGIORGI, KATERINA

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ISBN: 9780791464694 | 0791464695
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Copyright: 9/30/2005

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Katerina Deligiorgi teaches philosophy at Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge, England.

Acknowledgments

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Introduction: A Critical Answer to the Question, What Is Enlightenment?

(12)

Chapter 1. The Enlightenment in Question

(42)

1. Enlightenment as an "Age of Criticism"

(3)

2. Diderot, Rousseau, and the Tasks of Criticism

(4)

3. Diderot's Normative Impasse

(10)

4. Rousseau's Conception of Freedom and Its Problems

(11)

5. Mendelssohn, Reinhold, and the Limits of Enlightenment

(14)

Chapter 2. The Idea of a Culture of Enlightenment

(44)

1. Kant's Answer to the Question, What Is Enlightenment?

(4)

2. A New Approach to Independent Thinking

(10)

3. The Culture of Enlightenment: Public Argument as Social Practice

(8)

4. Communication, Autonomy, and the Maxims of Common Understanding

(8)

5. Reason's Good Name and Reason's Public

(7)

6. Power and Authority: Hamann on the Immature and Their Guardians

(7)

Chapter 3. Culture as a Historical Project

(34)

1. Kant's Attempt at a Philosophical History

(5)

2. The "Plan of Nature": History from a Political Perspective

104

(8)

3. Teleological Judgments of Nature and of Culture

112

(6)

4. Culture and Moral Progress: Two Perspectives on Rational Ends

118

(10)

5. The a priori Thread of History, Providence, and the Possibility of Hope

128

(5)

Chapter 4. Nature and the Criticism of Culture

133

(26)

1. Schiller on the Predicament of the "Moderns"

133

(3)

2. The Failures of Enlightenment

136

(6)

3. Nature Condemned: The Severity of Kantian Morality

142

(7)

4. Schiller's "Aesthetic State" and Its Criticism

149

(5)

5. Nature, Reason, and the Beginning of Culture

154

(5)

Chapter 5. Culture after Enlightenment

159

(28)

1. Enlightenment and Its Discontents

159

(2)

2. Adorno and Horkheimer on Enlightened Thought

161

(8)

3. Foucault on the Origin of Norms

169

(7)

4. Gilligan on Mature Adulthood

176

(7)

5. Culture within the Bounds of Reason

183

(4)

Notes

187

(44)

Bibliography

231

(12)

Index

243

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Kant And The Culture Of Enlightenment

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