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Back in the days of Kant and Lessing: a panoramic view of the Age of Enlightenment
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What is Enlightenment?
Questions for the Eighteenth Century
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.
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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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Ed. Raphael Gross, Liliane Weissberg
for the Deutsches Historisches Museum
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Contributions by H. Böhme, H. Bredekamp, U. Chakravarty, R. Chartier, P. Cheek, R. Darnton, E. Décultot, P. Franks, D. Fulda, V. Gerhardt, P. E. Gordon, P. Guyer, J. Habermas, M. Hagner, G. Hindrichs, J. Israel, M. Jacob, A. Lilti, P. Maciejko, M. Mulsow, A. Norton, K. Ospovat, E. Rothschild, U. J. Schneider, M. Suarez, A. Sutcliffe
336 pages, 130 illustrations,17 × 24 cm / 6 ¾ × 9 ½ in., Paperback with flaps
ISBN: 978-3-7774-4414-7
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Berlin
| Deutsches Historisches Museum
Categories
Art and Cultural History
Keywords
Cultural history, history, Kant, 18th century, Lessing, civil rights, emancipation, education, human rights, humanism
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