The enlightenment : history of an idea

Introduction - Living the Enlightenment vii Acknowledgments xvi Part I The Philosophers' Enlightenment: Thinking the Centaur 1 1 Historians and Philosophers: The Peculiarity of the Enlightenment as Historical Category 3 2 Kant: Was ist Aufklarung? The Emancipation of Man through Man 7 3 Hegel: The Dialectics of the Enlightenment as Modernity's Philosophical Issue 12 4 Marx and Nietzsche: The Enlightenment from Bourgeois Ideology to Will to Power 23 5 Horkheimer and Adorno: The Totalitarian Face of the Dialectic of Enlightenment 30 6 Foucault: The Return of the Centaur and the Death of Man 34 7 Postmodern Anti-Enlightenment Positions: From the Cassirer-Heidegger Debate to Benedict XVI's katholische Aufklarung 43 Part II The Historians' Enlightenment: The Cultural Revolution of the Ancien Regime 55 8 For a Defense of Historical Knowledge: Beyond the Centaur 57 9 The Epistemologia imaginabilis in Eighteenth-Century Science and Philosophy 67 10 The Enlightenment-French Revolution Paradigm Between Political Myth and Epistemological Impasse 79 11 The Twentieth Century and the Enlightenment as Historical Problem: From Political History to Social and Cultural History 87 12 What Was the Enlightenment? The Humanism of the Moderns in Ancien Regime Europe 95 13 Chronology and Geography of a Cultural Revolution 120 14 Politicization and Natura naturans: The Late Enlightenment Question and the Crisis of the Ancien Regime 140 Afterword The Enlightenment: A Revolution of the Mind or the Ancien Regime's Cultural Revolution? 155 Notes 173 Index 203