Enlightenment and Community
( McGill-Queens Studies in the History of Ideas )
Publication series ：McGill-Queens Studies in the History of Ideas
Author： Redekop Benjamin W.
Publisher： McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication year： 1999
E-ISBN: 9780773564190
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780773510265
Subject： B516 German philosophy
Keyword： 哲学理论
Language： ENG
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Description
In an age when it has become fashionable to dismiss the Enlightenment as a sinister movement based on instrumental rationality, Benjamin Redekop delves deeper to understand the movement on its own terms. In Enlightenment and Community he shows that the Enlightenment was a diverse, reformist enterprise with strong communitarian elements. Redekop examines the writings of G.E. Lessing, Thomas Abbt, and J.G. Herder - three seminal figures of the German Enlightenment - in their social and intellectual context, showing that their focus was the same issue that occupied many in Germany who ascribed to Enlightenment ideals: how to shape an enlightened "public" out of a diverse, fragmented, and "unenlightened" society.