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Rethinking the Enlightenment connects new work in intellectual history with fresh understandings of Continental philosophy and political theory. The collection bridges the disciplinary divides between the Enlightenment as understood in history, philosophy, and politics and moves towards a critical self-understanding of the present.
List of contents
1: What is it to Rethink the Enlightenment?
Henry Martyn Lloyd
2: Contemporary Political Theory as an Anti-Enlightenment Project
Dennis C. Rasmussen
3: What of All the Others? On Recovering the Enlightenment
Matthew Sharpe
4: What Sort of Question Was Kant Answering When He Answered the Question: "What Is Enlightenment?"?
James Schmidt
5: Catharine Macaulay as Critic of Hume
Karen Green
6: The Principled Enlightenment: Condillac, d'Alembert and Principle Minimalism
Peter R. Anstey
7: Reason and Rationality within the "Enlightenment of Sensibility"; Or, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, and French Philosophy's First "Linguistic Turn"
Henry Martyn Lloyd
8: Knowing Otherwise: An Ethics of Feeling
Daniel Brewer
9: Emotional Enlightenment: Kant on Love and the Beautiful
Marguerite La Caze
10: A Road Not Taken: Critical Theory after Dialectic of Enlightenment
Geoff Boucher
11: The Enlightenment: A Signifier of "Western Values"?
Genevieve Lloyd
Contributor Biographies
About the author
Geoff Boucher is associate professor at Deakin University.Henry Martyn Lloyd is a junior research fellow in Enlightenment studies at the University of Sydney.Henry Martyn Lloyd is a junior research fellow in Enlightenment studies at the University of Sydney.Matthew Sharpe is associate professor of philosophy at Deakin University. He is the coauthor of Philosophy as a Way of Life: History, Dimensions, Directions (with M. Ure) and author of Camus, Philosophe: To Return to Our Beginnings as well as articles on the history of philosophy, and political, critical and psychoanalytic theory.Marguerite La Caze is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Queensland.Geoff Boucher is associate professor at Deakin University.Genevieve Lloyd is Professor Emerita at the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and was the first female Professor of Philosophy appointed in Australia.
