The enlightenment was a philosophical project to construct a rational society without the need for a supreme being . It opened the way for the creation of market democracy and rapid economic growth. At the same time economic growth is the underlying cause of climate change, and we have become aware that this may destroy our civilization. The principal underpinning of the enlightenment project i...

How can an enterprise, such as Sloterdijk defines in his You Must Change Your Life and its satellite The Art of Philosophy, be “Enlightenment-conservative”? That is the question leading these reflections on key terms that contain both works nuce – practice course, but also perspective retrospective, transition, extension, explicitation, turn, return, quarter turn –, shed light Sloterdijk’s non-...

This paper examines the number and type of books geography geographical periodicals in eighteenth-century German-speaking territories place chronology their publication with reference to recent work on print culture Enlightenment. The extends studies Aufklärungsgeographie (Enlightenment geography) by taking a broadly quantitative approach presenting, for 345 109 periodicals, geographies authori...

This article places Nichiren within the context of three larger scholarly issues: de3nitions of the new Buddhist movements of the Kamakura period; the reception of the Tendai discourse of original enlightenment (hongaku) among the new Buddhist movements; and new attempts, emerging in the medieval period, to locate “Japan” in the cosmos and in history. It shows how Nichiren has been represented ...