Reclaiming the Enlightenment
Subtitle: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: April 18, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780231126090
Subjects: Political science & theory; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; History & Theory - General; Political; Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism; History / General
First sentence: IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE TERRORIST ATTACKS OF SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, amid the intellectual retrenchment consonant with the underlying "war against terror," the Enlightenment legacy has become-more than ever before-a contested terrain.