A Look at the Enlightenment of Modernity and Its Discontents

The aim of this collection is to familiarize the reader with the discussions and dialogues among Enlightenment thinkers regarding topics such as progress, rationalism, empiricism, freedom, equality, secularism, scientific methods, new perceptions of nature, the conflict between reason and emotion, aesthetic approaches, and generally the role of the Enlightenment in the final formation of modernity and its consequences. The book addresses these subjects: an introduction to the European Enlightenment and its course, John Locke as a pioneer of the Enlightenment in England, David Hume and the influence of his philosophy on the Enlightenment, critique of Enlightenment philosophy, Romanticism, Fichte as a philosopher of pure consciousness, the philosophy of Johann Gottfried von Herder, Johann Georg Hamann’s thoughts on art and beauty, Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi as a critic of Enlightenment philosophy, Schiller as a philosopher of art, Friedrich von Schlegel as a Romantic theorist, Schelling and the relation between art and philosophy, and the Enlightenment of modernity and its discontents.