Katerina Deligiorgi teaches philosophy at Anglia Polytechnic University in Cambridge, England.
Acknowledgments
vii
Note on the Texts Used
ix
Introduction: A Critical Answer to the Question, What Is Enlightenment?
1
(12)
Chapter 1. The Enlightenment in Question
13
(42)
1. Enlightenment as an "Age of Criticism"
13
(3)
2. Diderot, Rousseau, and the Tasks of Criticism
16
(4)
3. Diderot's Normative Impasse
20
(10)
4. Rousseau's Conception of Freedom and Its Problems
30
(11)
5. Mendelssohn, Reinhold, and the Limits of Enlightenment
41
(14)
Chapter 2. The Idea of a Culture of Enlightenment
55
(44)
1. Kant's Answer to the Question, What Is Enlightenment?
55
(4)
2. A New Approach to Independent Thinking
59
(10)
3. The Culture of Enlightenment: Public Argument as Social Practice
69
(8)
4. Communication, Autonomy, and the Maxims of Common Understanding
77
(8)
5. Reason's Good Name and Reason's Public
85
(7)
6. Power and Authority: Hamann on the Immature and Their Guardians
92
(7)
Chapter 3. Culture as a Historical Project
99
(34)
1. Kant's Attempt at a Philosophical History
99
(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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