The Moral Inevitability of Enlightenment and the Precariousness of the Moment. Reading Kant's 'What is Enlightenment?' KU Leuven
Kant’s famous essay An answer to the question: What is Enlightenment? has developed into the representative text of philosophical enlightenment in the course of the past two hundred years. Yet most interpretations tend to assign a univocal meaning to Kant’s text that is incompatible with its apparent polysemy. While taking the latter into account, this article wishes to closely investigate Kant’s essay and offer a balanced interpretation of ...