
Faces of the Enlightenment
Philosophical sketches
Zbigniew Drozdowicz(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 17. March 2020
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-3-631-80391-2 (ISBN)
Description
The author of this book speaks out again in regard to the Enlightenment. His inspiration comes not only from new observations occasioned by own studies, but also from the recently read material as well as opinions and appraisals of the era articulated lately at academic conferences. Although they have not led the author to perform a fundamental revision of his views in regard to the nature of Enlightenment and its crucial contributions to the Western culture, they did afford a better understanding of its complexity. They also made him more aware that his interpretation and presentation of that era depends considerably on what its prominent representatives had to say, as well as on the worldview-based assumptions and methods of appraisal adopted by its later observers and interpreters.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
378 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-631-80391-2 (9783631803912)
DOI
10.3726/b16422
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Zbigniew Drozdowicz is a philosopher and researcher of religion. He graduated in history from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Since 1973, he has worked as a scientific and didactic employee at that university. In 1994, he obtained the title of a professor in humanistic sciences. He specialises in contemporary French philosophy and in philosophy of religion.
Content
The multitude of grasps of the Enlightenment - The Enlightenment's revision of Cartesianism - Naturalism of the Enlightenment - Rationalism of the Enlightenment - Religious Enlightenment - Voltairean radicalism - The French Declarations of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen - The opponents of revolutionary radicalism