The Enlightenment and Modernity

by Norman Geras and Robert Wokler

This collection of essays is addressed to the legacy of Enlightenment thought, with respect to eighteenth-century notions of human nature, human rights, representative democracy or the nation-state, and with regard to the barbarism, including the Holocaust, allegedly unleashed by eighteenth-century ideals of civilization. Each author offers an interpretation of modern or postmodern philosophy against the background of a so-called Enlightenment Project,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312223854
• ISBN13: 9780312223854
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.8"