Pols 2006
Social Theories of Modernity
Week 2, Insert 2 – Kant’s What
Enlightenment
,Why Read Kant’s essay?
In this course, we will be reading the essay ‘What is Enlightenment?’…
• As a historical source (providing an insight into ‘The Enlightenment’)
• For the value of the perspective the essay presents.
• For what it tells us about modernity.
• And finally, we will be reading this essay to begin marking out what it
‘hides’.
, Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804)
Kant’s most famous ‘critiques’:
• Critique of Pure Reason (1781)
• Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
• Critique of Judgement (1790)
Social Theories of Modernity
Week 2, Insert 2 – Kant’s What
Enlightenment
,Why Read Kant’s essay?
In this course, we will be reading the essay ‘What is Enlightenment?’…
• As a historical source (providing an insight into ‘The Enlightenment’)
• For the value of the perspective the essay presents.
• For what it tells us about modernity.
• And finally, we will be reading this essay to begin marking out what it
‘hides’.
, Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804)
Kant’s most famous ‘critiques’:
• Critique of Pure Reason (1781)
• Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
• Critique of Judgement (1790)