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The Enlightenment and the Fate of Knowledge The Enlightenment is generally painted as a movement of ideas and society lasting from the late seventeenth to the early nineteenth century, but this book argues that the Enlightenment is an essential component of modernity itself. In the course of the study, Martin Davies offers an original world-view and a critique of some recent interpretations of the Enlightenment. Martin L. Davies is Emeritus Reader at the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. He is the author of Historics: Why History Dominates Contemporary Society, also published by Routledge. 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Davies For more information about this series, please visit: https://www.routledge.com/ Rout ledge -Appr oache s-to- Histo ry/bo ok-se ries/ RSHIS THRY The Enlightenment and the Fate of Knowledge Essays on the Transvaluation of Values Martin L. Davies First published 2020 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business © 2020 Martin L. Davies The right of Martin L. Davies to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Davies, Martin L., author. Title: The Enlightenment and the fate of knowledge : essays on the transvaluation of values / Martin L. Davies. Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. | Series: Routledge approaches to history; 33 | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019039361 (print) | LCCN 2019039362 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367086893 (hardback) | ISBN 9780429023774 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Enlightenment–Influence. | Knowledge, Theory of. | History–Philosophy. Classification: LCC B802 .D375 2019 (print) | LCC B802 (ebook) | DDC 121–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019039361 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019039362 ISBN: 978-0-367-08689-3 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-429-02377-4 (ebk) Typeset in Bembo by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India For Ras Philosopher consiste à invertir la direction habituelle du travail de la pensée. – Henri Bergson, La Pensée et le mouvant Même l’histoire de la philosophie est tout à fait inintéressante si elle ne se propose pas de réveiller un concept endormi, de le rejouer sur une nouvelle scène, fût ce au prix de le tourner contre lui-même. – Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Qu’est-ce que la philosophie? Je parle après toutes les histoires. – Montesquieu, De l’Esprit des Lois Contents Preface xi Prolegomena 1 Introduction: The Enlightenment: A reconception of its fate and value 22 1. On the Enlightenment’s fate and value 22 2. The Enlightenment as ‘general intellect’ 27 3. Modernity: The Enlightenment invalidated 31 4. The transvaluation of knowledge values: Knowledge as fatality 40 5. Knowledge: Its cognitive adequacy; its sufficient reason 47 6. Modernity: Parapraxis; the psychopathology of historicized life 52 7. Enlightenment and Modernity: Their common conceptual field 57 Notes 62 1 The Enlightenment and the fate of meaning 63 1. The quest for conceptual contentment 63 2. Enlightenment as dissent 66 3. At the limits of comprehension 80 4. Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, and the psychogenesis of nihilism 87 Notes 95 2 The Enlightenment and the fate of history 97 1. The sophism of historical continuity 97 2. Historicist designs: Deterring conceptual experimentation 105 3. Historicism: Its naïve form 119 4. Historicism: Its sophistical form 125 5. Modernity as discontinuity 139 Notes 145
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