The enlightenment : history of an idea

Content: 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