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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jun 2018

      1. This @jbouie piece on the whitewashing of the Enlightenment is, as expected, excellent:https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/06/taking-the-enlightenment-seriously-requires-talking-about-race.html …

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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jun 2018

      2. A few footnotes. As Bouie notes, the recent advocates of the Enlightenment are conservatives & centrists (Pinker, Goldbeg, Jordan Peterson) creating a usable past. It's worth noting how badly their own commitments fit their fictional intellectual history.

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    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jun 2018

      3. If Jordan Peterson's talk of Female Chaos & Male Order really Enlightenment? Nope. it draws on mythologists (Jung, Eliade, Campbell) rooted in Germanic romanticism (a mystical & anti-Enlightenment tradition).

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    4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jun 2018

      4. And Jonah Goldberg is heir to National Review conservatism, a tradition whose leading intellectual lights (Burnham, Chambers, various Straussians) were decidedly outside the Enlightenment.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jun 2018

      5. Whittaker Chambers (a huge figure in National Review's history) once suggested Enlightenment was like the apple that Satan got Adam & Eve to eat.

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    6. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jun 2018

      6. Pinker has more right to claim an Enlightenment linage but his critique of Blank Slate-ism sits uneasily with his echoes of Enlightenment ideas of perfectibility.pic.twitter.com/UwaaQKyYC8

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    7. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jun 2018

      7. Which is all to say that the current enthusiasts of the Enlightenment are (like the rest of us!) not really 18th century thinkers but engaged in a complex with past. The problem is they want to claim full ownership of a what is in fact public domain thought.

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    8. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jun 2018

      7. Which is all to say that the current enthusiasts of the Enlightenment are (like the rest of us!) not really 18th century thinkers but engaged in a complex dialogue with past. The problem is they want to claim full ownership of a what is in fact public domain thought

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    9. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jun 2018

      8. Why claim the Enlightenment when you are really in complex argument with it? Because you see the Enlightenment not as a complex historical phenomenon but rather as a brand. "We're Team Enlightenment," the argument goes. "You are Team Tribalist."

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    10. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jun 2018

      9. Team Enlightenment is interesting as a branding exercise. But let's not confuse it with intellectual history.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 5 Jun 2018

      10. Why does the racism of long dead thinkers like Locke & Kant cause a scandal? Because it hurts the brand of Team Enlightenment. But if you're interested in history, not branding, you can handle fact of checkered history.

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        2. Ollie‏ @O_lloyd 5 Jun 2018
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          Racism is obviously the most serious criticism of the enlightenment but i'm always tempted to ask these people whether they support Friedrich II style enlightened despotism or Rousseauiste homophobia as well

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        3. Gabriel‏ @Gabriel050111 5 Jun 2018
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          Come on, the french terror was really enlightening. Might be why the enlightenment gave us Napoleon, then Louis XVIII...

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        2. b-boy bouiebaisse‏Verified account @jbouie 5 Jun 2018
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          that is literally the opposite of what i explicitly said.

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        1. The Lookie Loo‏ @TheLookieLoo 5 Jun 2018
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          Enlightenment is not an epiphany. It reveals itself in historical fits and seizures.

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        1. Wilson Dizard‏Verified account @willdizard 5 Jun 2018
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          I think the last few years have shown how much we miss platitudes about fellowship and the universal dignity of human beings when those platitudes are suddenly gone.

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        2. Al Mousseau‏ @faceattack 5 Jun 2018
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          Isn’t just one “enlightenment” either: heterogeneous group of thinkers w/ contradictory ideas re: scripture, miracles, government, freedom of expression, role of inherited culture. Telling how much oft-cited examples (Locke) have a decidedly reactionary or conservative bent.

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        3. David " 🌷 🗿 🌷" Golumbia‏ @dgolumbia 5 Jun 2018
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          very true. also consider parodies of (early) Enlightenment-style systematizers in Voltaire and Swift--the ability to bring all of experience under pseudo-mathematical "reason" vs a certain amount of ironic skepticism toward such claims, both with strong claims to Enlightenment

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