Why this book?
- To understand the intellectual and philosophical foundations of the Age of Enlightenment.
- To grasp the relationship between reason, science, culture, and society in modern thought.
- To become acquainted with the interpretation of the Enlightenment by one of the most important Neo-Kantian philosophers.
- To study the link between eighteenth-century philosophy and the formation of modernity.
About the book
*The Philosophy of the Enlightenment* is one of Ernst Cassirer's important works in the history of philosophy and the philosophy of culture. In this book, Cassirer strives to present a comprehensive picture of the Age of Enlightenment and to show that the diverse ideas of this period, despite their differences, were formed on a common foundation of rationality, freedom, and trust in the human capacity to understand the world.
Cassirer does not view the Enlightenment merely as a collection of philosophical theories, but sees it as a cultural movement that transformed language, science, religion, ethics, and politics. He explains how the philosophers of the Enlightenment drew upon the intellectual heritage of the past while simultaneously reconstructing it for the conditions of the new world.
This book holds a special place among Cassirer's works because it examines the subject of the Enlightenment using his particular historical and analytical method; a method that later continued in his philosophy of culture and theory of symbolic forms. For those interested in philosophy, the history of ideas, and the humanities, this work is an important source for understanding the intellectual roots of the modern world.
The Persian translation of this work was done by Yadollah Movaqen, and the book has been published by Niloufar Publications.