Lecture by Dr. Dominic Erdozain (Emory University)
11 March 2021, 18-20 CET
|Webinar at Microsoft Teams
"If Men Were Angels: Reason and Passion in the Enlightenment". Abstract and registration on the event details page.
Time & Location
11 March 2021, 18-20 CET
Webinar at Microsoft Teams
About the Event
If Men Were Angels: Reason and Passion in the Enlightenment
Two errors dominate scholarly perceptions of the Enlightenment: the idea that it is over and the idea that it was secular – committed to the destruction of religion and largely successful in the endeavor. Together, these fallacies serve to distort the reality of a movement that remains the intellectual foundation of modern democracy and liberal discourse. The post-modern critique, which defines the Enlightenment as a presumptuous “project,” has been too quick to dismiss its achievements, while the secularization narrative – sometimes allied with the postmodern critique – has confused anticlericalism and pluralism with unbelief. This has nurtured a divisive and aggressive secularism, on one side, and a defensive dismissal of “the Enlightenment project” among political and religious conservatives. A more accurate and nuanced understanding of the Enlightenment as a period of religious reform rather than outright critique serves, above all,…
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