“On the Critical Legacy: Two Perspectives on Enlightenment”
The present essay approaches two different conceptions of Enlightenment and modernity. The first part considers Michel Foucault’s understanding of modernity as an “attitude” or “critical ethos” belonging to that age, that necessarily questions that which we have come to be in various contingent proc...
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Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
2017
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| Online Access: | http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/estudiosdefilosofia/article/view/19423/19531 http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/119230 |
| Summary: | The present essay approaches two different conceptions of Enlightenment and modernity. The first part considers Michel Foucault’s understanding of modernity as an “attitude” or “critical ethos” belonging to that age, that necessarily questions that which we have come to be in various contingent processes (how we have constituted ourselves as subjects); the second part considers Jürgen Habermas’s proposal, which invites us to understand modernity as an “unfinished project”, as a certain potential or rational ideal that is still to be carried out. Towards the end of the essay both stances are confronted, whereby an attempt is made to engage elements retrieved from each in a productive dialogue, and to raise some criticisms and observations regarding the sociohistorical conceptions of each author. === El presente trabajo busca aproximarse a dos concepciones distintas sobre la Ilustración y la modernidad. La primera parte considera la comprensión del filósofo francés Michel Foucault sobre la modernidad como una “actitud” o ethos crítico de la propia época, que pasa necesariamente por una problematización de aquello que en distintos procesos contingentes hemos llegado a ser (cómo nos hemos constituido como sujetos); la segunda parte se enfoca en la propuesta del alemán Jürgen Habermas, que invita a comprender la modernidad como un “proyecto inacabado”, como un cierto potencial o ideal racional aún por realizar. Hacia el final del ensayo se confrontan ambas posturas, tratando de que emerja un diálogo productivo que nos permita rescatar elementos de cada proyecto y planteando algunas críticas y observaciones soore las concepciones sociohistóricas de cada autor. |
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