Robert Wokler's enlightenment project

• Autores: Mark Goldie
• Localización: History of political thought, ISSN 0143-781X, Vol. 27, Nº 4, 2006, págs. 737-742
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In the death of Robert Wokler (1942-2006) not only has Enlightenment intellectual history lost one of its pre-eminent scholars but also Enlightenment values have lost an impassioned proponent. Perhaps it is an indelible feature of the mind of a Holocaust survivor that he should have an ingrained scepticism about postmodern critiques of 'the Enlightenment Project'. To Wokler's mind, Enlightenment values remained cynosures against barbarism.