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Vor einem Tag · Let‘s shine a spotlight on five of the Enlightenment‘s unsung heroes and examine how their contributions changed the world: 1. Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793) Olympe de Gouges was a true revolutionary in every sense of the word. Born Marie Gouze in Montauban, France, she was a self-educated butcher‘s daughter who became a prolific writer and ...
Vor 3 Tagen · In recent years, scholars have expanded the time span and global perspective of the Enlightenment by examining: (1) how European intellectuals did not work alone and other people helped spread and adapt Enlightenment ideas, (2) how Enlightenment ideas were "a response to cross-border interaction and global integration," and (3) how the Enlightenment "continued throughout the nineteenth century ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Against this background, Habermas challenges anti-Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment solutions. While the former advocates a return to a pre-modern form of thought – thus leading to reactionary and obscurantist forms of politics – the latter argues for the need to overcome the notion of modern reason through a process of relativizing the values of the Enlightenment.
Vor 3 Tagen · Price: £14.99. Dr Nigel Aston, review of The Enlightenment and Religion. The Myths of Modernity, (review no. 415) For a generation Peter Gay’s book on the Enlightenment (a text which perhaps tells us more about the 1960s than the 1760s) informed scholars that Enlightenment and Christianity were polarities and that the defeat of dogma and ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Theology is not just another realm of critical analysis, but the ground from which critique emerges. Throughout his book, Hotam emphasizes that “the relation between the ‘secular’ and the ‘religious’ does not point to a contradiction, as one may assume, but rather to what can be called a secular–religious continuum.” (162).
Vor 3 Tagen · The Age of Enlightenment is associated with the 18th century, a time marked by two critical historical events: the English Civil War of 1642 and the French Revolution of 1789 (McCready et al. 1). This period is characterized by a change in the worldview of people, in which the triumph of science, logic, rationality, and progress was promoted.
Vor 9 Stunden · Modernism took a critical stance towards the Enlightenment concept of rationalism. The movement also rejected the concept of absolute originality — the idea of "creation from nothingness" — upheld in the 19th century by both Realism and Romanticism , replacing it with techniques of collage , [5] reprise , incorporation, rewriting ...
Would you like to learn what Enlightenment is all about? This book is for people who are new to this topic.
