One of the most persistent, troubling, and divisive of the ideological divisions within modernity is the struggle over the Enlightenment and its legacy.
Henry Martyn Lloyd is a junior research fellow in Enlightenment studies at the University of Sydney..
About the Author Geoff Boucher is associate professor at Deakin University.
In doing so, in this collection moves towards a critical self-understanding of the present.
Edited by Geoff Boucher and Henry Martyn Lloyd, Rethinking the Enlightenment makes the case for connecting new work in intellectual History with fresh understandings of \'Continental\' Philosophy and political theory.
Yet this work has so far had little impact on the reception of the Enlightenment, its key players, debates, and ideas in the disciplines that most rely on its legacy, namely, Philosophy and political science.
Recent work by historians has now called into question many of the clich s that still dominate scholarly understandings of the Enlightenment\'s literary, philosophical, and political culture.
Rethinking the Enlightenment bridges these disciplinary divides.
Much of the difficulty is owed to a general failure among scholars to consider how history, philosophy, and Politics work together.
One of the most persistent, troubling, and divisive of the ideological divisions within modernity is the struggle over the Enlightenment and its legacy
