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9783777444147: What Is Enlightenment?: Questions for the Eighteenth Century
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ISBN 10 : 3777444146 ISBN 13 : 9783777444147
Editeur : Hirmer Verlag, 2024

Synopsis

On the 300th anniversary of Kant's birth, 2024: From the search for knowledge and a new kind of science to debates about religion, human equality and freedom of mankind, the demand for civil rights, mercantilism and cosmopolitanism - many issues that great thinkers of the Enlightenment dealt with are now fundamental to our society. And we are still striving for some goals.

The great Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant was born 300 years ago - a perfect occasion to take a closer look at the "long 18th century". What were the most important debates at the time? What contradictions and ambivalences, conflicts over concepts and demands can be revealed today? This comprehensive publication with contributions by international experts explores the changing ideas of science, equality and tolerance of the past and the present.

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À propos des auteurs

Raphael Gross is the president of the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin.

Liliane Weissberg is professor in the arts and sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

On the 300th anniversary of Kant's birth, 2024: From the search for knowledge and a new kind of science to debates about religion, human equality and freedom of mankind, the demand for civil rights, mercantilism and cosmopolitanism - many issues that great thinkers of the Enlightenment dealt with are now fundamental to our society. And we are still striving for some goals.

The great Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant was born 300 years ago - a perfect occasion to take a closer look at the "long 18th century". What were the most important debates at the time? What contradictions and ambivalences, conflicts over concepts and demands can be revealed today? This comprehensive publication with contributions by international experts explores the changing ideas of science, equality and tolerance of the past and the present.

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Éditeur
Hirmer Verlag
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3777444146
ISBN 13 
9783777444147
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
336
Éditeur
Gross Raphael, Weissberg Liliane
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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