Enlightenment Interrupted: The Lost Moment of German Idealism and the Reactionary Present

by Michael Steinberg

For most of the eighteenth century the best minds in Europe took up the task of providing a foundation for human life and human society in which individual fulfillment was to be achieved within a rational public order. When it became apparent that this task was based on an illusion--the separation of self and world--and was thus doomed to failure, however, that insight and the consequent crisis were forgotten and repressed. After 1815 all parties,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1782790144
• ISBN13: 9781782790143
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Zero Books
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"