Susan Neiman shows how the resources of the 18th century Enlightenment can help us to reconstruct a progressive politics that does not repeat the mistakes of Marxism or succumb to the appeal of unreason.
Susan Neiman shows how the resources of the 18th century Enlightenment can help us to reconstruct a progressive politics that does not repeat the mist...
This collection demonstrates the range of approaches that some of the leading scholars of our day take to basic questions at the intersection of the natural and human worlds. The essays focus on three interlocking categories: Reason stakes a bigger territory than the enclosed yard of universal rules. Nature expands over a far larger region than an eternal category of the natural. And history refuses to be confined to claims of an unencumbered truth of how things happened.
This collection demonstrates the range of approaches that some of the leading scholars of our day take to basic questions at the intersection of th...
