Modern Enlightenment - Insights for the Crises of the Present

We share with the people of the Enlightenment the common experience of profound technical, social, and cultural upheavals. Even back then, many pressing questions of our time were being posed: about the claim to truth in science and politics, about the question of gender, about social and global justice, about sustainable economic practices, about peace in Europe and the world, and about how to deal with natural disasters. This book updates the insights of the Enlightenment and helps us use them to understand the crises of the present in a new way.

List of contents

Preface.- Introduction.- Enlightenment in Europe.- Critique of Religion.- Man and Nature.- Nature and Civlization.- Knowlege and Skill.- Morality and Politics.- Crisis of Capitalism.- World History and Globalization.- Transformations.

About the author

Johannes Rohbeck is Professor emeritus of Practical Philosophy and Philosophy Didactics at the Technical University of Dresden.

Summary

Johannes Rohbeck is Professor emeritus of Practical Philosophy and Philosophy Didactics at the Technical University of Dresden.

Product details

• Authors: Johannes Rohbeck
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.02.2026
• EAN: 9783662716397
• ISBN: 978-3-662-71639-7
• No. of pages: 265
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 15 mm x 235 mm
• Weight: 423 g
• Illustrations: X, 265 p. 2 illus.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Renaissance, Enlightenment; Religionsphilosophie, Philosophie, Voltaire, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Rousseau, Soziale und politische Philosophie, Philosophy of History, Crisis, Philosophical Anthropology, Geschichtsschreibung, Historiographie, Kant, Globalisation, Modernity, Social Philosophy, Philosophy of religion, Philosophy of Enlightenment, COVID-19 pandemic, diagnosis of the times, The relevance of the Enlightenment, Philosophy of the Enlightenment