Table of Contents
Preface List of contributors Introduction: The Enlightenment: something to think about Martin L. Davies 1. What does thinking about the Enlightenment mean? 2. Enlightenment finality 3. The demise of a ‘great truth
’ Thinking about Kant and the Enlightenment 1.
Kant’s Concept of Enlightenment: its Individual and Universal Dimensions
Olga Poznjakova 2. Rethinking Kant's Immaturity in Arendt’s Post-Totalitarian Reflection
Tatiana Weiser Thinking about Enlightenment and Politics 3. The Enlightenment, Encyclopedism and the Natural Rights of Man: The Case of the
Code of Humanity (1778)
Luigi Delia 4. Deliberative Democrats as the Heirs of Enlightenment: Between Habermas and Dewey
John Min Thinking about Enlightenment and Religion 5. Christianity and Enlightenment: Two hermeneutical Approaches to their Relationship
Salvatore Muscolino 6. The Enlightenment Legacy and European Identity. Reflections on the Cartoon-Controversy
Carsten Meiner Thinking about Enlightenment and Gender 7. Between Shadow and Light: Women’s Education
Christophe Regina 8. "Race", "Sex", and "Gender": Intersections, Naturalistic Fallacies, and the Age of Reason
Carina Pape Thinking about Enlightenment and its Limits 9. Adoption as a Limit-Case for Enlightenment: Lessing’s
Nathan der Weise and Kleist’s
Der Findling David D. Kim 10. From Unsocial Sociability to Antagonistic Society (and back again): The historical role and social-scientific presence of an anthropological trope
Tilman Reitz Postscripts: Thinking about Enlightenment thinking 11. Multiple Counter-Enlightenments: The Genealogy of a Polemics from the Eighteenth Century to the Present
Theo Jung 12. ‘The Proper Study of Mankind’: Enlightenment and Tautology
Martin L. Davies Index