This articles provides a new portrait of the German Enlightenment, which is often credited, alongside its French counterpart, with being one-sidedly optimistic and rationalistic. The evidence provided here supports a different view, i.e., that the German Enlightenment was well ware, on the on hand, of the weakness of reason and, on the other hand, of the power of prejudice.
La «debolezza» della ragione nell’età dell’illuminismo: la forza delle idee polemiche
MACOR L
2009-01-01
Abstract
This articles provides a new portrait of the German Enlightenment, which is often credited, alongside its French counterpart, with being one-sidedly optimistic and rationalistic. The evidence provided here supports a different view, i.e., that the German Enlightenment was well ware, on the on hand, of the weakness of reason and, on the other hand, of the power of prejudice.
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