Iwan-Michelangelo D’Aprile
Critical Global Studies and Planetary History: New Perspectives on the Enlightenment
Iwan-Michelangelo D’Aprile, Universität Potsdam (UP)
Abstract: Though doing so invites methodological problems, the concept of ‘the Enlightenment’ is nevertheless in need of widening: it can no longer be reduced to any one historical period; nor can it be restricted to Europe. As a process of rationalization, scientification, technification, secularization, or democratization, forms of Enlightenment can be identified in many periods and regions. I wish to argue here that an expanded meaning opens up opportunities for an enhanced and interdisciplinary Enlightenment research. On the basis of two recent approaches to the Enlightenment—by ...
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