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oa Vijanden van de Verlichting - Antiverlichting en Verlichting in de Europese intellectuele geschiedenis
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis, Volume 127, Issue 2, Jun 2014, p. 211 - 228
Abstract
In this article several new publications on the critics of the Enlightenment are reviewed. These works build partly on the legacy of Isaiah Berlin’s concept of the Counter-Enlightenment, but they also emphasise the problematic nature of his essentialistic and timeless interpretation of the Counter-Enlightenment tradition. The authors argue that the so-called enemies of the Enlightenment should in fact be examined as part of the Enlightenment itself, and that the Enlightenment cannot be understood without studying its self-proclaimed enemies.
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