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1750, casualty 1914: lest we forget (the preKantian enlightenment)
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posted on 2017-01-01, 00:00 authored by Matthew Sharpe“1750”, the French enlightenment, was a retrospective casualty of the catastrophes set in chain by 1914. German Kulturpessimismus, heightened by the war and enflamed by the abuse of liberal ideals at the Treaty table at Versailles, has since been disseminated through, amongst other things, the intellectual normalisation of Heidegger’s metapolitical, radically antimodern “history of Being”, and more recently Carl Schmitt’s work. The paper recalls that the French enlightenment, a divided period of intellectual ferment, was characterised as much by scepticism as rationalism, Deism as atheism, anticolonialism as Eurocentrism, the recovery of Roman (as against Greek) antiquity, and the philosophical use of literature to break with old modes of intellectual production, and create new public spheres.
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100 years of European philosophy since the Great War: crisis and reconfigurationsVolume
25Series
Philosophical studies of contemporary cultureChapter number
14Pagination
251 - 276Publisher
Springer International PublishingPlace of publication
Cham, SwitzerlandPublisher DOI
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0928-9518eISSN
2215-1753ISBN-13
978-3-319-50361-5Language
engPublication classification
B Book chapter; B1 Book chapterCopyright notice
2017, Springer International Publishing AGExtent
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M Sharpe, R Jeffs, J ReynoldsUsage metrics
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