The Enlightenment and the fate of knowledge : essays on the transvaluation of values

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Prolegomena -- Introduction: The Enlightenment: A reconception of its fate and value -- 1. On the Enlightenment's fate and value -- 2. The Enlightenment as 'general intellect...

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Auteur principal: Davies, Martin L. 1948- (Auteur)
Format: Ebook
Langue:English
Publié: Milton : Routledge, 2019
Titres liés à la collection:Routledge approaches to history 34
Accès à la collection:Routledge approaches to history
Sujets:Enlightenment Knowledge, Theory of History Electronic books
Description matérielle:1 online resource (221 pages)
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Résumé:Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Prolegomena -- Introduction: The Enlightenment: A reconception of its fate and value -- 1. On the Enlightenment's fate and value -- 2. The Enlightenment as 'general intellect' -- 3. Modernity: The Enlightenment invalidated -- 4. The transvaluation of knowledge values: Knowledge as fatality -- 5. Knowledge: Its cognitive adequacy -- its sufficient reason -- 6. Modernity: Parapraxis -- the psychopathology of historicized life -- 7. Enlightenment and Modernity: Their common conceptual field -- Notes -- 1 The Enlightenment and the fate of meaning -- 1. The quest for conceptual contentment -- 2. Enlightenment as dissent -- 3. At the limits of comprehension -- 4. Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and the psychogenesis of nihilism -- Notes -- 2 The Enlightenment and the fate of history -- 1. The sophism of historical continuity -- 2. Historicist designs: Deterring conceptual experimentation -- 3. Historicism: Its naïve form -- 4. Historicism: Its sophistical form -- 5. Modernity as discontinuity -- Notes -- 3 The Enlightenment and the fate of knowledge -- 1. Defining the intellectual-function -- 2. The Enlightenment: Gauging the decline of Modernity (I) -- 3. The Enlightenment: Gauging the decline of Modernity (II) -- 4. Locations of the intellectual: Configurations of mind -- Notes -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
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Description matérielle:1 online resource (221 pages)
ISBN:9780429659591
0429659598
9780367086893
0367086891