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The ideas of the Scottish Enlightenment in Russia: Adam Smith and Semyon Efimovich Desnitskii on the philosophy of history
The paper focuses on the mutual interaction as well as the impact of the Scottish Enlightenment on the formation of the Enlightenment in Russia...
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The Enlightenment Is Dead, Long Live the Enlightenment! Towards a Post-critical Age of Reason
Michael Polanyi was in a complicated relationship with enlightenment. On the one hand, he criticised the seventeenth to nineteenth century...
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Enlightenment and Revolution
This chapter examines Kant’s role in Foucault’s views on revolution and Foucault’s adoption of the Enlightenment attitude of criticism toward the...
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Two Dogmas of Enlightenment Scholarship
A central theme in the scholarly literature on Enlightenment Europe concerns the increased focus on the role of reason in the development of European...
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From Body to Language: Gestural and Pantomimic Scenarios of Language Origin in the Enlightenment
Gestural and pantomimic accounts of language origins propose that language did not develop directly from ape vocalisations, but rather that its...
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From Scientific Truth to Tradition-Encased Personal Meaning: Polanyi’s Critique of Enlightenment Ideas
As a young man, Michael Polanyi gloried in the freedoms he experienced in turn of the century liberal society. He understood liberal society to be...
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The Ethical Implications of Enlightenment in Dōgen’s Philosophy of Compassion
What is the role of feelings (jō) in Dōgen’s Buddhist thought? Throughout the Shōbōgenzō Zuimonki, it is clear that Dōgen has a negative view of...
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Enlightenment, Truths, and the Sciences
Sorgner distinguishes two different understandings of the Enlightenment: a Kantian and a Nietzschean. In both traditions, reason gets employed to...
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The Demythification of Gold in the Spanish Enlightenment: Money, Commerce, and Markets
During the first decades of the eighteenth century the philosophy of the so-called novatores [innovators] spread throughout Spain, influenced by...
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The May 4th Movement, Confucianism, and Enlightenment: Reflections on the Issue of “Feudal Autocracy”
By reinterpreting how Chinese Enlightenment movement understands Confucian tradition, this chapter initiates a new explanation for the tension...
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Mechanical Organisms in the Enlightenment
Enlightenment Biologists looked for new ways to think about nature. Proponents of empirical and mechanical philosophy sought a physiology, a physics...
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Liang the Philosopher of Living: On the Counter-Enlightenment Thought of Liang Shuming During the 1920s
The popularity of counter-Enlightenment thought, or namely critiques towards Enlightenment rationalism and universalism, during and following the May...
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Faith, Doubt, and the Buddhist Path of Enlightenment
This essay is an inquiry into the roles played by both faith and doubt in the Buddhist quest for enlightenment (rather than in an ordinary life of...
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Selbstdenken and Eclectic Philosophy: Galen in the Late German Enlightenment
This chapter examines the reception of Galen’s philosophical methodology in the late German Enlightenment. Its main goal is to show that after...
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The Mundane Dialectic of Enlightenment: Typification as Everyday Identity Thinking
To make Adorno’s difficult notion of “identity thinking” more amendable to sociological research, this project brings his Negative Dialectics into...
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The Post-Enlightenment Blunder, and the Failure to Develop Academic Inquiry so as to Become Rationally Devoted to Hel** Humanity Create a Civilized World
The philosophes of the eighteenth century French Enlightenment made a profound discovery. We can learn from scientific progress how to make social...
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Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism Revisited
This book provides an overview of some of the most important critics of “Enlightenment rationalism.” The subjects of the volume (including, among...
