Kant and the Culture of Enlightenment.

Intro -- Kant and the Culture of Enlightenment -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Texts Used -- Introduction: A Critical Answer to the Question, What Is Enlightenment? -- 1. The Enlightenment in Question -- 1. Enlightenment as an "Age of Criticism" -- 2. Diderot, Rousseau, and the Tasks of Criticism -- 3. Diderot's Normative Impasse -- 4. Rousseau's Conception of Freedom and Its Problems -- 5. Mendelssohn, Reinhold, and the Limits of Enlightenment. -- 2. The Idea of a Culture of Enlightenment -- 1. Kant's Answer to the Question, What Is Enlightenment? -- 2. A New Approach to Independent Thinking -- 3. The Culture of Enlightenment: Public Argument as Social Practice -- 4. Communication, Autonomy, and the Maxims of Common Understanding -- 5. Reason's Good Name and Reason's Public -- 6. Power and Authority: Hamann on the Immature and Their Guardians -- 3. Culture as a Historical Project -- 1. Kant's Attempt at a Philosophical History -- 2. The "Plan of Nature": History from a Political Perspective -- 3. Teleological Judgments of Nature and of Culture -- 4. Culture and Moral Progress: Two Perspectives on Rational Ends -- 5. The a priori Thread of History, Providence, and the Possibility of Hope -- 4. Nature and the Criticism of Culture -- 1. Schiller on the Predicament of the "Moderns" -- 2. The Failures of Enlightenment -- 3. Nature Condemned: The Severity of Kantian Morality -- 4. Schiller's "Aesthetic State" and Its Criticism -- 5. Nature, Reason, and the Beginning of Culture -- 5. Culture after Enlightenment -- 1. Enlightenment and Its Discontents -- 2. Adorno and Horkheimer on Enlightened Thought -- 3. Foucault on the Origin of Norms -- 4. Gilligan on Mature Adulthood -- 5. Culture within the Bounds of Reason -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B.

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Interprets Kant's conception of enlightenment within the broader philosophical project of his critique of reason.

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