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Reclaiming the Enlightenment from purely philosophical and cultural interpretations, Bronner shows that its notion of political engagement keeps democracy fresh and alive by providing a practical foundation for fostering institutional accountability, opposing infringements on individual rights, instilling an enduring commitment to social reform, and building a cosmopolitan sensibility. This forceful and timely reinterpretation of the Enlightenment and its powerful influence on contemporary political life is a resounding wake-up call to critics on both the left and the right.

Table of Contents:
Interpreting the Enlightenment: Metaphysics, Tradition, and Politics In Praise of Progress Inventing Liberalism The Great Divide: Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and the Public Sphere Abolishing the Ghetto: Anti-Semitism, Racism, and the Other The Illusory Dialectic: From Enlightenment to Totalitarianism Experiencing Reality: The Culture Industry, Subjectivity, and Identity Pathways to Freedom: Rights, Reciprocity, and the Cosmopolitan Sensibility Renewing the Legacy: Renewing the Legacy

About the Author :
Stephen Eric Bronner is a distinguished professor of political science and comparative literature at Rutgers University. He is the author of numerous books, including Imagining the Possible: Radical Politics for Conservative Times; Ideas in Action; Of Critical Theory and Its Theorists; Socialism Unbound; and A Rumor About the Jews: Antisemitism, Conspiracy and the Protocols of Zion. He lives in New York City.

Review :
Stephen Bronner has written a much-needed and never-completed sequel to Adorno and Horkheimer's classic Dialectic of Enlightenment. His powerful defense of political liberty, social justice, and cosmopolitanism is the best extension of the Enlightenment legacy we have. His challenge to one-eyed rationalists, all-or-nothing romantics, and self-pitying nihilists is powerful and persuasive. -- Cornel West An important call to recover our Enlightenment roots in an agae characterized by a loss of reason and rational discourse. Recommended. -- Henry L. Carrigan Jr. Library Journal Simultaneously a scholarly study and an impassioned manifesto, this masterful book by Bronner responds to the left-wing critique of the Enlightenment. Choice Stephen Bronner offers a persuasive 'rehabilitation' of the Enlightenment in which he argues forcefully that despite the demolition of reason by left 'dialectical' critics, the Age of Reason remains a valuable source of progressive thinking and radical insights. An important work for students and scholars as well as for political practitioners. -- Benjamin R. Barber, author of Jihad vs. McWorld and Fear's Empire Stephen Bronner's study of the Enlightenment and its reception is not only superb but timely. Bronner rescues the Enlightenment from critics of both the left and the right. In the future, anyone who wants to defend arguments about ethical reason or scientific knowledge based on local prejudices will have to deal with Bronner's decisive arguments. -- Philip Green, author of Equality and Democracy Stephen Bronner shows how today's Left has impoverished, even poisoned itself by sliding unawares into the language and imagery of the European Counter-Enlightenment, the movement against 1776 and 1789. But he also shows us how the not-quite-lost language of the Enlightenment can be our Magic Flute, if we just have the courage to grasp it and play our own variations on its themes. -- Marshall Berman, author of All that is Solid Melts Into Air Reclaiming the Enlightenment is a vigorous and thought-provoking book. -- Sankar Muthu Perspectives of Politics


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780231126083
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement
  • ISBN-10: 0231126085
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Returnable: Y


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