Die Aufklärung – Philosophischer Anspruch und kulturgeschichtliche Wirkung

Vincenzo Ferrone sees the phenomenon of the Enlightenment in terms of the philosophical and cultural development of a new idea of humanity on the one hand, and the political realisation of this revolutionary concept on the other, culminating in the drawing up and formulation of human rights – the most precious legacy of the Enlightenment. Ferrone''s brilliant study is the result of a lecture serie...