This is also true. The point isn't the deny the entire validity of the Enlightenment (an impossible & foolish task) but to urge that it be seen as having a complex, conflicted, evolving legacy.https://twitter.com/OldDreyfusard/status/1003095762845093893 …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
If I weren’t on vacation I would have written this up as a tweetstorm or column, but the most formidable Enlightenment legacy is the culture of critique from which flowed criticism of the Enlightenment from within itself (eg, Rousseau, Herder).
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Agree. And to that extent critics of Enlightenment (including post-modern left & reactionary right) are working within its tradition more than those who make plaster saints of Locke & Kant.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
That’s my view, with some caveats. But more importantly, it’s close to Foucault’s view, too. (Interestingly, he gives Kant great credit for inaugurating this Aufklaerung ueber Aufklaerung.)
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Replying to @DamonLinker @HeerJeet
With respect, I think it's a bit of a red herring. Is anyone making plaster saints out of Kant and Locke? (FWIW, I agree Pinker's account of the Enlightenment is too simplistic.)
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A lot of the time, the "racist Enlightenment" trope seems to be pretty clearly intended as a stick to beat liberalism with, whether from the left or from the right.
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Well, there's always trolling but at a higher level some pretty serious people, from Burke & Herder to McIntyre & Foucault have lodged complaints. And the scholarly literature that Bouie was basing his claims on is super-solid & reputable.
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