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• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction: Living the Enlightenment
• Acknowledgments
• Part I: The Philosophers’ Enlightenment: Thinking the Centaur
• 1 Historians and Philosophers: The Peculiarity of the Enlightenment as Historical Category
• 2 Kant: Was ist Aufklärung?: The Emancipation of Man through Man
• 3 Hegel: The Dialectics of the Enlightenment as Modernity’s Philosophical Issue
• 4 Marx and Nietzsche: The Enlightenment from Bourgeois Ideology to Will to Power
• 5 Horkheimer and Adorno: The Totalitarian Face of the Dialectic of Enlightenment
• 6 Foucault: The Return of the Centaur and the Death of Man
• 7 Postmodern Anti-Enlightenment Positions: From the Cassirer-Heidegger Debate to Benedict XVI’s katholische Aufklärung
• Part II: The Historians’ Enlightenment: The Cultural Revolution of the Ancien Régime
• 8 For a Defense of Historical Knowledge: Beyond the Centaur
• 9 The Epistemologia imaginabilis in Eighteenth-Century Science and Philosophy
• 10 The Enlightenment–French Revolution Paradigm: Between Political Myth and Epistemological Impasse
• 11 The Twentieth Century and the Enlightenment as Historical Problem: From Political History to Social and Cultural History
• 12 What Was the Enlightenment?: The Humanism of the Moderns in Ancien Régime Europe
• 13 Chronology and Geography of a Cultural Revolution
• 14 Politicization and Natura naturans: The Late Enlightenment Question and the Crisis of the Ancien Régime
• Afterword: The Enlightenment: A Revolution of the Mind or the Ancien Régime’s Cultural Revolution?
• Notes
• Index