Name: The Legacy of the Enlightenment. Ambivalences of Modernity
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Author: Antoine Lilti;C. Jon Delogu
ISBN: 9780226820613

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The Legacy of the Enlightenment. Ambivalences of Modernity

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Author

Antoine Lilti;C. Jon Delogu

Collection

The Life of Ideas

Year

2025

Pages

320

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

22.90 x 15.20 cm

ISBN13

9780226820613

The Legacy of the Enlightenment. Ambivalences of Modernity

Antoine Lilti;C. Jon Delogu (Author) · University of Chicago Press · Hardcover

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Synopsis "The Legacy of the Enlightenment. Ambivalences of Modernity"

Going against the grain, this refreshing book argues for a non-ideological portrait of the Enlightenment as having been, above all else, a self-critical enterprise. The Enlightenment has come under substantial attack over the past several years, with some going so far as to recommend leaving behind its thinkers and their Eurocentric prejudices. In response, the most orthodox defenders of the Enlightenment have insisted that its values are not just foundational but indispensable and that abandoning them would mean opening the door to nihilism and relativism. For Antoine Lilti, one of the leading scholars of the French Enlightenment, both sides are wrong. In this tactfully argued series of essays, Lilti emphasizes a non-dogmatic, non-ideological view of the Enlightenment—one that sees its legacy as a critical, attentive approach that can and should serve as its own best critic. Along the way, he engages with everyone from Rousseau and Kant to Foucault and Habermas, as well as prominent contemporary voices, such as Jonathan Israel. The result is a remarkable new reading of the Enlightenment that redraws the stakes of old debates and offers an alternative way to engage with both canonical thinkers and later scholarship that is both honest about the past and useful for the future.