Debates about the nature of the Enlightenment date to the
eighteenth century, when Imanual Kant himself addressed the
question, "What is Enlightenment?" The contributors to this
ambitious book offer a paradigm-shifting answer to that now-famous
query: Enlightenment is an event in the history of mediation.
Enlightenment, they argue, needs to be engaged within the newly
broad sense of mediation introduced here--not only oral, visual,
written, and printed media, but everything that intervenes,
enables, supplements, or is simply in between.
With essays addressing infrastructure and genres, associational
practices and protocols, this volume establishes mediation as the
condition of possibility for enlightenment. In so doing, it not
only answers Kant's query; it also poses its own broader question:
how would foregrounding mediation change the kinds and areas of
inquiry in our own epoch? "This Is Enlightenment "is a landmark
volume""with the polemical force and archival depth to start a
conversation that extends across the disciplines that the
Enlightenment itself first configured.
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