RESUMEN: This paper has both substantive and methodological concerns: Substantively, it is concerned with changes in the treatment of the concept "enlightenment" over the course of the nineteenth century. Its goal is to track the transmission, translation, and appropriation of German discussions on the nature, ends, and implications of Aufklärung into English. Its particular focus lies with the...

This paper maps definitions of modernism extracting some of the features of aesthetic modernism as it discusses Descartes, the Enlightenment, Cartesian rationalism and the notion of ‘aesthetics’. Within modernism, I consider its major assumptions, values, (or its aesthetic), the theoretical sources of formalism and the ideas and outstanding figures associated with modernism, such as Immanuel Ka...

‖ If we look upon the intellectual relationships of the mathematical sciences to philosophy as they have developed since the times of the Enlightenment, we notice with satisfaction that mathematical thought is now at the point of regaining the powerful influence on philosophical speculation that it possessed up to Kant’s time, but then suddenly lost completely. That sudde...

‖ If we consider the intellectual relationship of the mathematical sciences to philosophy, as they have developed since the time of the Enlightenment, we notice with satisfaction that mathematical thought is now at the point of regaining the powerful influence on philosophical speculation that it had up to Kant’s time, but then suddenly lost completely. That sudden turn from mathematical though...