En este libro se presentan por primera vez en lengua castellana textos fundamentales de un debate que ha recorrido la historia del pensamiento occidental: la polémica de los sexos. En ellos, Marie de Gournay no solo vindica los deseos, necesidades y expectativas de una mujer que…
"Kant believed that true enlightenment is the use of reason freely in public. This is the first book to trace systematically the philosophical origins and development of the idea that the improvement of human understanding requires public activity." "Michael Losonsky focuses on …
This is a timely, distinctive and sparkling introductory account of social theory and the central role of enlightenment within it. Osborne argues that social theory should be based on an idea of enlightenment rather than modernity.
The enlightenment and its shawdows
"When, in 1735, Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten added a new discipline to the philosophical system, he not only founded modern aesthetics but also contributed to shaping the modern concept of art or 'fine art'. In The Founding of Aesthetics in the German Enlightenment, Stefanie Bu…
