Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society

by Reinhart Koselleck

Book Overview

Critique and Crisis established Reinhart Koselleck's reputation as the most important German intellectual historian of the postwar period. This first English translation of Koselleck's tour de force demonstrates a chronological breadth, a philosophical depth, and an originality which are hardly equalled in any scholarly domain. It is a history of the Enlightenment in miniature, fundamental to our understanding of that period and its consequences...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262611570
• ISBN13: 9780262611572
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher