Faith in the Enlightenment?: The Critique of the Enlightenment Revisited (Currents of Encounter, 30) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9042020679 ISBN 13: 9789042020672

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2006

Synopsis

One of the urgent tasks of modern philosophy is to find a path between the rationalism of the Enlightenment and the relativism of postmodernism. Rationalism alone cannot suffice to solve today's problems, but neither can we dispense with reasonable critique. The task is to find ways to broaden the scope of rational thought without losing its critical power. The first part of this volume explores the ideas of Enlightenment philosophers and shows nuances often absent from the common view of the Enlightenment. The second part deals with some of the modern heirs of Enlightenment, such as Durkheim, Habermas, and Derrida. In the third part this volume looks at alternatives to Enlightenment thought in West European, Russian and Buddhist philosophy. Part four provides, over against the Enlightenment, a new starting point for the philosophy of religion in thinking about human beings, God, and the description of phenomena.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 9042020679
• ISBN 13: 9789042020672
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 368
• Editor: Boeve Lieven, Schrijvers Joeri, Stoker Wessel, Vroom Hendrik M.