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• Persistent Enlightenment | Notes on the Enlightenment as Historical Period and Continuing Project

  Notes on the Enlightenment as Historical Period and Continuing Project

• Publicity & the Public Sphere – Reading Habermas as a Historian of Concepts | Persistent

  As I was getting ready for a discussion of Jürgen Habermas’ Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere in a seminar that I’m teaching on Enlightenment and its Critics, I recalled an incident from ...

• Karl Popper & Isaiah Berlin on Liberty & Enlightenment (Part I) | Persistent Enlightenment

  On October 31, 1958, Isaiah Berlin assumed the Chichele Chair of Social and Political Theory at Oxford and delivered his inaugural lecture, "Two Concepts of Liberty." The lecture — which is now regard...

• Kant and the “Private” Use of Reason | Persistent Enlightenment

  Readers of Kant’s little essay on the question “What is enlightenment?” have long recognized that the distinction between “public” and “private” uses of reason is both central to its argument and rath...

• Foucault, Habermas, and the Debate That Never Was | Persistent Enlightenment

  For the last thirty years my filing cabinet has contained two letters dating from the fall of 1983: one from Jürgen Habermas, the other from Michel Foucault. They were written in response to my attemp...

• Foucault, the “History of Thought,” and the Question of Enlightenment | Persistent Enlightenment

  My previous post examined how, during the last eighteen months of his life, Foucault repeatedly drew a distinction between the “history of thought” in which he was engaged and more conventional (thoug...