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Let There Be Enlightenment - The Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality (Hardcover)
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Let There Be Enlightenment - The Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality (Hardcover)
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Challenging the triumphalist narrative of Enlightenment secularism.
According to most scholars, the Enlightenment was a rational
awakening, a radical break from a past dominated by religion and
superstition. But in Let There Be Enlightenment, Anton M. Matytsin,
Dan Edelstein, and the contributors they have assembled deftly
undermine this simplistic narrative. Emphasizing the ways in which
religious beliefs and motivations shaped philosophical
perspectives, essays in this book highlight figures and topics
often overlooked in standard genealogies of the Enlightenment. The
volume underscores the prominent role that religious discourses
continued to play in major aspects of seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century thought. The essays probe a wide range of
subjects, from reformer Jan Amos Comenius's quest for universal
enlightenment to the changing meanings of the light metaphor,
Quaker influences on Baruch Spinoza's theology, and the unexpected
persistence of Aristotle in the Enlightenment. Exploring the
emergence of historical consciousness among Enlightenment thinkers
while examining their repeated insistence on living in an
enlightened age, the collection also investigates the origins and
the long-term dynamics of the relationship between faith and
reason. Providing an overview of the rich spectrum of
eighteenth-century culture, the authors demonstrate that religion
was central to Enlightenment thought. The term "enlightenment"
itself had a deeply religious connotation. Rather than revisiting
the celebrated breaks between the eighteenth century and the period
that preceded it, Let There Be Enlightenment reveals the
unacknowledged continuities that connect the Enlightenment to its
various antecedents. Contributors: Philippe Buc, William J. Bulman,
Jeffrey D. Burson, Charly Coleman, Dan Edelstein, Matthew T.
Gaetano, Howard Hotson, Anton M. Matytsin, Darrin M. McMahon, James
Schmidt, Celine Spector, Jo Van Cauter
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