This Is Enlightenment

Informationen zum Autor Clifford Siskin is the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English and American Literature at New York University. William Warner is professor of English at the University of California! Santa Barbara. Klappentext Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century! when Immanuel Kant himself addressed the question! 'What is Enlightenment'? This book offers a paradigm-shifting answer to that query: Enlightenment is an event in the history of mediation. It establishes mediation as the condition of possibility for enlightenment. Zusammenfassung Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century! when Immanuel Kant himself addressed the question! 'What is Enlightenment'? This book offers a paradigm-shifting answer to that query: Enlightenment is an event in the history of mediation. It establishes mediation as the condition of possibility for enlightenment.

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• Authors: Clifford Siskin, Clifford (EDT)/ Warner Siskin, Clifford Warner Siskin, SISKIN CLIFFORD WARNER WILLIAM
• Assisted by: Clifford Siskin (Editor), Siskin Clifford (Editor), William Warner (Editor), Warner William (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.05.2010
• EAN: 9780226761480
• ISBN: 978-0-226-76148-0
• No. of pages: 568
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 232 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Western philosophy: Enlightenment