An Answer to the Question 'what is Enlightenment ' Immanuel Kant (64 results)

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light brown full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. remainder copy in fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. black ink mark on bottom edge near spine. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in vg cond. spine chipped at top, soiling on rear, not price clipped. nice vintage copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). 829p. footnotes throughout. bibliographic references for each section. index. philosophy. biography. world history. political philosophy. ~ Contents = LUCRETIUS: De rerum natura / TACITUS: Annals / MONTAIGNE: Essays / BACON: The Great lnstauration DESCARTES: Discours de la methode / NEWTON: Letters / LOCKE: A Letter Concerning Toleration / BAYLE: Dictionnaire historique et critique / TILLOTSON: Of the Necessity of Good Works / VOLTAlRE: Letters Concerning the English Nation / ROUSSEAU: Discours sur l'origine de l'inegalite / POPE: An Essay on Man / HUME: History of England / GIBBON: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / BOSWELL: Conversation with Hume / JEFFERSON: Letter to Dr. Benjamin Rush / ADDISON: The Spectator / DIDEROT: "Encyclopedia" / D' ALEMBERT: "Geneva" / LESSING: The Education of the Human Race / KANT: What Is Enlightenment? / REYNOLDS: Discourses on Art / CONDILLAC: Treatise on Sensations / ADAM SMITH: The Wealth of Nations / MACKENZIE: The Man of Feeling / MONTESQUIEU: The Spirit of the Laws / BECCARIA: On Crimes and Punishments / RADISCHEV: A Journey frorn'St. Petersburg to Moscow / MADISON, HAMILTON, JAY: The Federalist / CONDORCET: Sketch of the Progress of the Human Mind. ~"The career of the name 'Enlightenment' is almost as complex as the historical reality it designates. The first to have applied the term to a distinct period were the Germans; as early as the eighteenth century itself, they spoke, not always appreciatively, of the Aufklarung. One of the most revealing texts of the age is, appropriately enough, a popular essay by the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, entitled 'Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?' Kant's answer was brief and clear: 'Enlightenment is man's emergence from his nonage.' Man has failed to reach his majority not through 'lack of intelligence' but from 'lack of determination and courage to use that intelligence without another's guidance. Sapere aude! Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!'" ~ from the Introduction. This comprehensive anthology of the Enlightenment, compiled and edited by Peter Gay, is doubtless the most complete and wide ranging collection of its kind. It includes fifty six selections from many countries, including France, England, Scotland, the German and Italian states, the American colonies, and even Russia. A few of the selections in the book are translated for the first time and have not been available before; others are perhaps unfamiliar to English readers, but belong to a comprehensive understanding of this critical period. The first long section presents a number of selections from classical and early modern literature that in the eighteenth century were seminal to the Enlightenment. The entire anthology has a full introduction by the editor. Each selection as well as each of the sections is accompanied by an explanatory headnote, and there are bibliographical references throughout. While The Enlightenment: A Comprehensive Anthology brings together the familiar giants of the age, it also reaches out to the more unfamiliar figures of this great movement in Westem culture; and though it is an objective study, it is also a very personal enterprise~as might be expected from a historian who has written so much on this era and who is one of its chief interpreters.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No markings, annotations, or inscriptions. Conspicuous tan to page block and endpapers, but otherwise clean throughout. Cover remains tight and robust, lightly toned, with mild edge wear. There is no creasing to the spine. A noticeably shelf-aged copy, else essentially fine. Translated with an Introduction by Ted Humphrey. 152pp. A selection of Kant's essays on politics, history and morals, including "Idea for a Universal History" (1784), "An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?" (1784), and "Perpetual Peace" (1795).

Paperback. Condition: Gut. XIII, 563 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Einband leicht berieben, Kopfschnitt minimal angeschmutzt, Bleistifteintrag auf Schmutztitel, sonst ein gutes Exemplar / binding slightly rubbed, top edge minimally soiled, pencil entry on half title, otherwise a good copy. - CONTENTS PREFACE Introduction: What Is Enlightenment? A Question, Its Context, and Some Consequences James Schmidt Part I. THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY DEBATE 1. The Question and Some Answers What Is to Be Done toward the Enlightenment of the Citizenry? (1783) Johann Karl Mohsen On the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (1784) Moses Mendelssohn An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? (1784) Immanuel Kant Thoughts on Enlightenment (1784) Karl Leonhard Reinhold A Couple of Gold Nuggets, from the Wastepaper, or Six Answers to Six Questions (1789) Christoph Martin Wieland 2. The Public Use of Reason On Freedom of Thought and of the Press: For Princes, Ministers, and Writers (1784) Ernst Ferdinand Klein On Freedom of the Press and Its Limits: For Consideration by Rulers, Censors, and Writers (1787) Carl Friedrich Bahrdt Publicity (1792) Friedrich Karl von Moser Reclamation of the Freedom of Thought from the Princes of Europe, Who Have Oppressed It Until Now (1793) Johann Gottlieb Fichte 3. Faith and Enlightenment Letter to Christian Jacob Kraus (18 December 1784) Johann Georg Hamann Metacritique on the Purism of Reason (1784) Johann Georg Hamann On Enlightenment: Is It and Could It Be Dangerous to the State, to Religion, or Dangerous in General? A Word to Be Heeded by Princes, Statesmen, and Clergy (1788) Andreas Riem 4. The Politics of Enlightenment Something Lessing Said: A Commentary on Journeys of the Popes (1782) Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi True and False Political Enlightenment (1792) Friedrich Karl von Moser On the Influence of Enlightenment on Revolutions (1794) Johann Heinrich Tieftrunk Does Enlightenment Cause Revolutions? (1795) Johann Adam Bergk Part II. HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS The Berlin Wednesday Society Günter Birtsch The Subversive Kant: The Vocabulary of "Public" and "Publicity" John Christian Laursen On Enlightenment for the Common Man Jonathan B. Knudsen Modern Culture Comes of Age: Hamann versus Kant on the Root Metaphor of Enlightenment Garrett Green Jacobi s Critique of the Enlightenment Dale E. Snow Earlv Romanticism and the Aufklärung Frederick C. Beiser Progress: Ideas, Skepticism, and Critique The Heritage of the Enlightenment Rudolph Vierhaus Part III TWENTIETH-CENTURY QUESTIONS What Is Enlightenment? Rudiger Bittner Reason Against Itself: Some Remarks on Enlightenment Max Horkheimer What Is Enlightened Thinking? Georg Picht What Is Critique? Michel Foucault The Unity of Reason in the Diversity of Its Voices Jürgen Habermas The Battle of Reason with the Imagination Hartmut Böhme and Gernot Böhme The Failure of Kant s Imagination Jane Kneller The Gender of Enlightenment Robin May Schott Autonomy, Individuality, and Self-Determination Lewis Hinchman Enlightened Cosmopolitanism: The Political Perspective of the Kantian "Sublime" Kevin Paul Geiman CONTRIBUTORS TO PARTS II AND III SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX. ISBN 9780520202269 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 774.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover, x + 362 pages, NOT ex-library. Printed in the USA. Fine interior, book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show gentle handling wear, short creases to spine ends. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Introduction; 1. Anthropological Analogy and the Constitution of Historical Perspectivism / Mogens Laerke [Introduction; Requirements for an Unapologetic Historiography of Philosophy; Anthropological Analogy; Fieldwork in the History of Philosophy; Historical Perspectivism; Historical Actualism; Conclusion]; 2. History of Philosophy as Past and as Process / Justin E.H. Smith [Introduction; Real Archaeology of Knowledge; A Wissenschaft der Neuzeit?; Holding Water; Case Studies; History, Philosophy, and Myth]; 3. Philosophy and Genealogy: Ways of Writing History of Philosophy / Koen Vermeir [Appropriationists vs Contextualists; History of Philosophy vs Philosophical Uses of History; Genealogies and Sameness; Genealogies and Difference; Conclusion]; 4. Understanding the Argument through Then-Current Public Debates or My Detective Method of History of Philosophy / Ursula Goldenbaum [Meaning of Kant's Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?; Method]; 5. Contingency of Philosophical Problems / Joanne Waugh & Roger Ariew [Introduction; Mythic Tales of 'Philosophical History'; Problem with Problems: Sorting Myth and Philosophy]; 6. Philosophical Problems in the History of Philosophy: What Are They? / Leo Catana [Concept of Problem in Problem-based History of Philosophy; Concept of Problem as It Has Been Practiced in Problem-based Histories of Philosophy; Brandis Integrating the Internal-External Distinction into a Problem-based History of Philosophy; Philosophical Problems Transgressing the Internal-External Distinction]; 7. Philosophizing Historically/Historicizing Philosophy: Some Spinozistic Reflections / Julie R. Klein [Introduction; Philosophical Readers; Reason and Affect, Again; Contemporary Readers and Historical Texts; Conclusion]; 8. Is the History of Philosophy a Family Affair? Examples of Malebranche and Locke in the Cousinian School / Delphine Kolesnik-Antoine [Introduction; Malebranche and Locke: frères ennemis?; Malebranche and Locke: Twin Brothers; Conclusion]; 9. Taming of Philosophy / Michael Della Rocca [Characterizing the Method of Intuition and Its Alternatives; Is It Good? Taming and Conservatism; Is It Good? Taming and the Antiquarianism of the Present; Is It Good? Taming, Quine, and Revision; Why Now?; Two Lifelines]; 10. Philosophic Prophecy / Eric Schliesser [Introduction and Summary; Philosophic Prophecy; Methodological Contrasts; Ernest Nagel: The (False) Prophet of Analytical Philosophy; Schlick and Coining Concepts: A Counter-History of Analytical Philosophy]; 11. Philosophical Systems and Their History / Alan Nelson [What Is Systematic Interpretation?; Obstacles to Systematic Interpretation; A Program for Systematic Interpretation: Locke's Essay]; 12. Charitable Interpretations and the Political Domestication of Spinoza, or, Benedict in the Land of the Secular Imagination / Yitzhak Y. Melamed ['Be Aware of the Charitable Interpreter': Charitable Interpretations, the History of Philosophy, and Gettier's Fallacy; 'Spinoza Got It Right': Charitable Interpretations and the History of Political and Religious Thought; Philosophical Relevancy]; 13. Mediating between Past and Present: Descartes, Newton, and Contemporary Structural Realism / Mary Domski [History in Current Debates about Structural Realism; Descartes and Newton on the Appropriateness of Mathematics for Physics (Descartes's Principles; Newton's De Gravitatione); Descartes, Newton, and Structural Realism]; 14. What Has History of Science to Do with History of Philosophy? / Tad M. Schmaltz [History of History of Science; Relation of History of Philosophy to Philosophy; Science and Philosophy in Early Modern Thought]; Bibliography; Index Nominum; Index Rerum.

Condition: New. Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Immanuel Kant himself addressed the question, What is Enlightenment ? This book offers a paradigm-shifting answer to that query: Enlightenment is an event in the history of .

Condition: New. Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the eighteenth century, when Immanuel Kant himself addressed the question, 'What is Enlightenment'? This book offers a paradigm-shifting answer to that query: Enlightenment is an event in the history of mediation. It establishes mediation as the condition of possibility for enlightenment. Editor(s): Siskin, Clifford; Warner, William. Num Pages: 568 pages, 24 halftones, 2 line drawings. BIC Classification: DSBD; HPCD1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. . . 2010. Hardcover. . . . .

near fine dust-jacket, attractive blue cloth, very good and appears little used if at all. KANT, IMMANUEL. Practical philosophy. Translated and edited by Mary J. Gregor ; general introduction by Allen Wood. Cambridge University Press, 1996, xxxiii, 668pp., . The Cambridge edition of the works of Immanuel Kant - This 1997 book was the first English translation of all of Kant's writings on moral and political philosophy collected in a single volume. No other collection competes with the comprehensiveness of this one. As well as Kant's most famous moral and political writings, the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, the Critique of Practical Reason, the Metaphysics of Morals, and Toward Perpetual Peace, the volume includes shorter essays and reviews, some of which have never been translated before. The volume has been furnished with a substantial editorial apparatus including translator's introductions and explanatory notes to each text by Mary Gregor, and a general introduction to Kant's moral and political philosophy by Allen Wood. There is also an English-German and German-English glossary of key terms. - CONTENTS: Review of Schulz's Attempt at an introduction to a doctrine of morals for all human beings regardless of different religions -- An answer to the question, what is enlightenment? -- On the wrongfulness of unauthorized publication of books -- Groundwork of the metaphysics of morals -- Review of Gottlieb Hufeland's Essay on the principle of natural right -- Kraus' review of Ulrich's Eleutheriology -- Critique of practical reason -- On the common saying, that may be correct in theory, but it is of no use in practice -- Toward perpetual peace -- The metaphysics of morals -- On a supposed right to lie from philanthropy -- On turning out books. 9780521371032 ISBN 0521371031.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Two of Kant's works bound in one volume, 8vo, xx, [ii], 296, [iv], 220 pp., contemporary half vellum a little marked, front free endpaper cut to remove a signature, some light foxing and occasional spots, very good copies in a nice binding. (1) The first of three reprints of the Religion in the year of its first publication. Warda 142, Adickes 79. (2) First edition of this collection of ten essays. Eight of them had previously appeared in the Berlinische Monatsschrift, including Kant's famous answer to the question 'What is Enlightenment?' (pp. 25-37). Warda 229, Adickes 6.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. What is Enlightenment?KANT, Immanuel. Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung? (Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?) in Berlinische Monatsschrift. Haude & Spener, Berlin, 1784. [viii], 576 pp. 12mo. First Printing [Warda 85]. First printing of Kant's famous reply to the question 'What is Enlightenment?' (pp. 481-494). In this essay, appearing in the December issue, Kant responds to the question posed the previous year by Reverend Johann Friedrich Zöllner. Many intellectuals responded with essays of their own, but Kant s stands as the most important as he unexpectedly claims courage more than intellect stands as the critical component for an enlightened individual and society.The volume also includes Moses Mendelssohn's answer to the same question (pp. 193-200), and one other essay by Kant: 'Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht' (pp. 385-411). Adickes 50 and 51.SCARCE. Rarely found in the trade. A "must have" for any complete collection of Kant s works.This volume also contains the first printing of "Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht" (Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View) in the November issue [Warda 83]. CONDITION: Very good or better. Includes the rare frontispiece. contemporary half calf over speckled boards, spine ruled gilt in compartments with contrasting labels, rubbed, light dampstaining to endpapers, frontispiece, and a few outer margins, otherwise internally fresh and clean, a very good copy. PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Very rare complete run of the key Enlightenment periodical, including FIFTEEN IMMANUEL KANT FIRST EDITIONS (please see list). The Berlinische Monatsschrift was the main publication spreading the Enlightenment in Germany. It was the organ of the Mittwochsgesellschaft, the Berlin Wednesday Society , a secret group of 'Friends of Enlightenment' whose members included Johann Friedrich Zöllner and Moses Mendelssohn, as well as the Monatsschrift editors, Gedike and Biester. The monthly magazine's 168 issues came out between 1783 and 1796. Fifteen essays by Kant made their first appearance in its pages, most famously his answer to Zöllner's question What is Enlightenment? in the December 1784 issue (Volume 4). PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: 28 volumes [all published], 8vo, in various contemporary bindings, rubbed and with wear in places, 13 volumes with the original blue wrappers bound in, all but two with the portrait frontispieces, internal condition ranging from good to very good, with occasional dampstaining, a rich historical and scholarly resource, hardly ever offered for sale complete.