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Vor 4 Tagen · 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 metaphysics were the harbingers of secular modernity.
Vor 5 Tagen · Historicism, Enlightenment, and ‘the Two Eyes of Wisdom’ Modern Historiography in the Making. The German Sense of the Past, 1700–1900, by Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen, London, Bloomsbury, 2023, 186 pp., £28.99 (paperback), ISBN: 9781350271487
Vor 2 Tagen · Together, these figures exemplify the breadth of 19th-century thought, from Darwin’s scientific explorations to Marx’s sociological insights and Freud’s psychological innovations. Despite their differences, they shared a skepticism toward convention and a dedication to empirical evidence or critical scrutiny.
Vor 2 Tagen · This movement directly criticized the Enlightenment's position that humans can fully comprehend the world through rationality alone, suggesting that intuition and emotion are key components of insight and understanding.
Vor 5 Tagen · Both the title—The Decline of Magic—and the subtitle—Britain in the Enlightenment—promise sweeping panoramas. The former, of course, invokes Keith Thomas’s half-century-old Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971), one of the foundational texts for the study of early modern witchcraft.
Vor 2 Tagen · In chapter three O’Brien provides a fascinating and informed account of the impact of historical interest in women upon the ethnic consciousness emerging in Britain, discussing the ways in which constructs of women from the past, such as the Roman matron or Gothic tribeswoman, provided a means to ‘anchor modern manners in an ...
Vor einem Tag · Modernism also took a critical stance towards Enlightenment rationalism. Another feature of this movement is reflexivity about artistic and social conventions, which led to experimentation that highlighted how works of art are made and the material from which they have been created.
