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The Super-Enlightenment - Daring to Know Too Much (Paperback, New ed.)
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The Super-Enlightenment - Daring to Know Too Much (Paperback, New ed.)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2010:01
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Historians of eighteenth-century thought have implied a clear
distinction between mystical or occult writing, often termed
'illuminist', and better-known forms of Enlightenment thinking and
culture. But where are the boundaries of 'enlightened' human
understanding? This is the question posed by contributors to this
volume, who put forward a completely new way of configuring these
seemingly antithetical currents of thought, and identify a grey
area that binds the two, a 'Super-Enlightenment'. Through articles
exploring the social, religious, artistic, political and scientific
dimensions of the Super-Enlightenment, contributors demonstrate the
co-existence of apparent opposites: the enlightened and the
esoteric, empiricism and imagination, history and myth, the
secretive and the public, mysticism and science. The Enlightenment
can no longer be seen as a sturdy, homogeneous movement defined by
certain core beliefs, but one which oscillates between opposing
poles in its social practices, historiography and even its
epistemology: between daring to know, and daring to know too much.
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