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Reclaiming the Enlightenment : Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement by Stephen Eric Bronner, 1949- is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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This book tackles an obvious yet profound problem of modern political life: the disorientation of intellectuals and activists on the left. As the study of political history and theory has been usurped by cultural criticism, a confusion over the origins and objectives of progressive politics has been the result. Specifically, it has become fashionable for intellectuals to attack the Enlightenment for its imperialism, eurocentrism, and scientism, and for the sexism and racism of some of its major representatives. Although the fact that individual thinkers harbored such prejudices is irrefutable, Stephen Bronner argues that reducing the Enlightenment ethos to these beliefs is wholly unsustainable. With its championing of democracy, equality, cosmopolitanism, and reason -- and its vociferous attacks on popular prejudice, religious superstition, and arbitrary abuses of power -- the Enlightenment was once hailed as the foundation of all modern, progressive politics. But in 1947, this perspective was dramatically undermined when Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno published their classic work, Dialectic of Enlightenment , which claims that the Enlightenment was the source of totalitarianis
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Stephen Eric Bronner, 1949-
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780231126090
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- History, Political Science, Religion
- Rating
- 3.89 / 5 (14 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
