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Counter-Enlightenment

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In the s, the ' Sturm und Drang ' movement started in Germany. One particular concern to early Romantic writers was the allegedly anti-religious nature of the Enlightenment since the philosophes and Aufklarer were generally deists , opposed to revealed religion. Some historians, such as Hamann , nevertheless contend that this view of the Enlightenment as an age hostile to religion is common ground between these Romantic writers and many of their conservative Counter-Revolutionary predecessors.

However, not many have commented on the Enlightenment, except for Chateaubriand, Novalis, and Coleridge, since the term itself did not exist at the time and most of their contemporaries ignored it. The philosopher Jacques Barzun argues that Romanticism has its roots in the Enlightenment. It was not anti-rational, but rather balanced rationality against the competing claims of intuition and the sense of justice. This view is expressed in Goya's Sleep of Reason , in which the nightmarish owl offers the dozing social critic of Los Caprichos , a piece of drawing chalk.

Even the rational critic is inspired by irrational dream-content under the gaze of the sharp-eyed lynx. By the middle of the 19th century, the memory of the French Revolution was fading and so was the influence of Romanticism. In this optimistic age of science and industry, there were few critics of the Enlightenment, and few explicit defenders. Friedrich Nietzsche is a notable and highly influential exception. After an initial defence of the Enlightenment in his so-called 'middle period' lates to early s , Nietzsche turned vehemently against it.

In the intellectual discourse of the midth century, two concepts emerged simultaneously in the West: After World War II , the former re-emerged as a key organizing concept in social and political thought and the history of ideas. The Counter-Enlightenment literature blaming the 18th-century trust in reason for 20th-century totalitarianism also resurged along with it.

The locus classicus of this view is Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno 's Dialectic of Enlightenment , which traces the degeneration of the general concept of enlightenment from ancient Greece epitomized by the cunning 'bourgeois' hero Odysseus to 20th-century fascism.

They mentioned little about Soviet communism , only referring to it as a regressive totalitarianism that "clung all too desperately to the heritage of bourgeois philosophy". The authors take 'enlightenment' as their target including its 18th-century form — which we now call 'The Enlightenment'.

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They claim it is epitomized by the Marquis de Sade. Many postmodern writers and feminists e. Jane Flax have made similar arguments. They regard the Enlightenment conception of reason as totalitarian, and as not having been enlightened enough since.

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For Adorno and Horkheimer, though it banishes myth it falls back into a further myth, that of individualism and formal or mythic equality under instrumental reason. Michel Foucault , for example, argued that attitudes towards the "insane" during the lateth and early 19th centuries show that supposedly enlightened notions of humane treatment were not universally adhered to, but instead, the Age of Reason had to construct an image of "Unreason" against which to take an opposing stand. Berlin himself, although no postmodernist, argues that the Enlightenment's legacy in the 20th century has been monism which he claims favours political authoritarianism , whereas the legacy of the Counter-Enlightenment has been pluralism associates with liberalism.

These are two of the 'strange reversals' of modern intellectual history. What seems to unite all of the Enlightenment's disparate critics from 18th-century religious opponents, counter-revolutionaries, to Romantics, to 20th-century conservatives, feminists, critical theorists and environmentalists is a rejection of what they consider to be the Enlightenment's perversion of reason: Debates have occurred over the scope, meaning and application of reason, not over whether it is good or bad, desirable or undesirable, essential or inessential per se. Some charge that the Enlightenment inflated the power and scope of reason, while others claim that it narrowed it.

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