What is Enlightenment? Questions for the Eighteenth Century

Museum edition

The publication throws light on the central themes of the Enlightenment, their contradictions and ambivalences and their conflicts about concepts and demands. It discusses changing notions of issues ranging from science, equality to tolerance – then and now.

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

Published by: Raphael Gross, Liliane Weissberg in the name of the Deutsches Historisches Museum

Munich 2022, 336 pages, 130 illustrations, Hirmer Verlag

ISBN 978-3-86102-235-0

30,00€