Enlightenment Aberrations (English, David W. Bates)

About the Book

In Enlightenment Aberrations , David W. Bates shows that error was a complex, important, and by no means entirely negative concept in Enlightenment thought, one that had a decisive influence in revolutionary debates on political identity and national history. What can it mean to write a history of error? In Bates's view all philosophy, insofar as its project is the search for truth, begins in error. If truth is posited as a goal to be attained, n…

ISBN: 9780801439452