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Enlightenment values, including an emphasis on human rights and belief in rationalism and progress, aspire to be universals, yet at the same time they are concepts grounded in the eighteenth century. Since the French Revolution we have grappled with the concepts of Enlightenment, Lumières, Aufklärung, in an attempt to understand how these eighteenth-century concepts continue to shape and influence modern notions of liberal culture. This collection of essays approaches these important questions in a resolutely European and multi-lingual perspective

A review essay on books by (1) Knud Haakonssen [Ed], The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U Press, 2006); & (2) Mark Goldie & Robert Wokler [Eds], The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U Press, 2006).

The official story -- A different side of Kant -- From Hamann to Burke -- Hegel -- From Strauss to Marx -- Forerunners -- Horkheimer/Adorno; Foucault -- Difference critics -- Foucault, Habermas, Rawls -- Assessing Foucault, Habermas, and Rawls -- In defense of Kantian enlightenment

Discusses punishment in the US. Although the prison of late modernity, the 'supermax' is viewed by many criminologists as a retro model of the original penitentiary, argues that this is mistaken. Supermax imprisonment rejects the very essence of the original penitentiary project, which was based on the individualizing practices of self-control. Instead, today's penal regime has as its purpose objectification, de-individualizing practices of population control. Argues that the current regime of totalitarian incarceration could not possibly be a product of the Enlightenment. (Original abstract - amended)

"Over the course of the eighteenth century, European intellectuals shifted from admiring China as a utopian place of wonder to despising it as a backwards and despotic state. That transformation had little to do with changes in China itself, and everything to do with Enlightenment conceptions of political identity and Europe's own burgeoning global power. China in the German Enlightenment considers the place of German philosophy, particularly the work of Leibniz, Goethe, Herder, and Hegel, in this development. Beginning with the first English translation of Walter Demel's classic essay "How the Chinese Became Yellow," the collection's essays examine the connections between eighteenth-century philosophy, German Orientalism, and the origins of modern race theory."--

Enlightenment values, including an emphasis on human rights and belief in rationalism and progress, aspire to be universals, yet at the same time they are concepts grounded in the eighteenth century. Since the French Revolution we have grappled with the concepts of Enlightenment, Lumière, Aufklärung, in an attempt to understand how these eighteenth-century concepts continue to shape and influence modern notions of liberal culture. This collection of essays approaches these important questions in a resolutely European and multi-lingual perspective. Ranging from Victor Cousin to Peter Gay, different chapters consider Tocqueville and the Hegelian school (Bruno Bauer, David Friedrich Strauss, Hermann Hettner), the intellectual currents in Europe around 1900 (Wilhelm Dilthey, Gustave Lanson), the thinkers of the Weimar Republic (Ernst Cassirer) and of the Frankfurt School (Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno), and the debates after the Second World War (Franco Venturi). While the principal focus is on writing in French, German and English, the book also treats the Russian- and Italian-speaking worlds. This important contribution to the history of ideas helps us to redefine the Enlightenment. These essays do not merely describe historical assessments of an eighteenth-century movement of ideas: they contribute to the ongoing debate about the very nature of the concept of Enlightenment

Berkowitz reviews The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb.