What is Enlightenment? by Fleischacker Samuel

Author:Fleischacker, Samuel
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781135091576
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Summary

In recent years, the critique of Kantian enlightenment has largely taken the form of a claim that an emphasis on the universal human capacity to reason ignores crucial differences among human beings: differences across race, gender, and culture, especially. (Advocates of such views sometimes add that Kant's personal racism or sexism infects his entire philosophy.) To some extent, this line of argument follows the pattern of the rational critique of reason that we considered in the past two chapters; to some extent, it adds an emphasis on the particularity of human experience that was not very important to Nietzsche, Heidegger, Horkheimer/Adorno, or Foucault.

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