Kant's manuscript “Answering the Question:'What is EnlightenH ment?'”, from the year 1784,
emerged in the context of a debate on the concept of enlightenment that had been put …

In December 1784 an article appeared in the Berlinische Monatsschrift that would go on to
become what Dan Edelstein has aptly characterized as a “one-stop shop for defining the …

The article provides a historically informed exposition of Immanuel Kant's notion of
enlightenment. The 18th century marked the zenith of absolute monarchy in Europe. The …

THE ENDURING RESONANCE OF Kant's brief essay “An Answer to the Question: What is
Enlightenment?”(henceforth “WE”) can be traced in large part to the connection it makes …

In the course of a close analysis of Kant's essay in which he gives his original answer to the
question,“What is Enlightenment?” I examine the causes and consequences of the theses …

Monatsschrift in 1784 in response to the question posed in the same journal the previous
year by the Berlin theologian Johann Friedrich Zöllner. 1 This is, however, merely the first of …

The central idea in Kant's conception of enlightenment is that of submitting all claims to
authority to the free examination of reason:“Reason depends on this freedom for its very …

The aim of this essay is to analyse the potential for political emancipation that lies within
Kant's conception of Aufklärung, in critical dialogue with enlightenment critics and …

At least two recent collections of essays–Postmodernism and the Enlightenment (2001) and
What's Left of Enlightenment?: A Postmodern Question (2001)–have responded to …

It was Kant with whom the German Enlightenment Project began. Kant was the first to use
the German word 'Aufklärung'meaning Enlightenment. It is, according to Kant, an …