This collection of essays is addressed to the legacy of Enlightenment thought, with respect to eighteenth-century notions of human nature, human rights, representative democracy or the nation-state, and with regard to the barbarism, including the Holocaust, allegedly unleashed by eighteenth-century ideals of civilization. Each author offers an interpretation of modern or postmodern philosophy against the background of a so-called Enlightenment Project, envisaged as the conceptual ghost that haunts modernity.
- ISBN13 9780312223854
- Publish Date 11 March 2000
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition 2000 ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 232
- Language English