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• Title:
  How to Study the Enlightenment? Study and Defend
• Creator:
  Płuciennik, Jarosław
• Contributor:
  Wdowik, Agata;
  Rejman, Zofia;
  Wichrowska, Elżbieta;
  University of Łódź;
  professor of the humanities, cultural studies, literary studies, cognitive semantics, history of ideas, Jarosław Płuciennik is employed as a professor at the University of Łódź. Vice-Rector for Education at the University of Lodz in 2012–2016. Rector's Plenipotentiary for Open Educational Resources in 2016–2020. Member of the Committee of Cultural Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Editor-in-chief of the international quarterly "Zagadnienia Rodzajów Literackich/ The Problems of Literary Genres". He conducted studies and research at Lund University Cognitive Science in Sweden, at Westminster College and Clare Hall in Cambridge, at the Cultural Institute in Bolzano and at CEU in Budapest. He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Warsaw, the Academy of Music in Łódź, Lund University and Seton Hall University in New Jersey, USA. He promoted 7 doctors. He is the author of almost 200 publications. He was the local coordinator of the Erasmus project called The iProfessional (iPro), the Erasmus + project entitled Boys Reading (also research project) and the Erasmus + project DIGI.COM/YOUTH and LLOM. Current research on the act of reading from a comparative and cognitive perspective and educational technologies (especially iphonology and MOOC), the idea of ​​the university, and critical media literacy.;
  jaroslaw.pluciennik@uni.lodz.pl
• Description:
  We live in a time of uncertainty and transition. Some would claim that Enlight- enment has already died (Kissinger, in Bendyk 2018, and Agata Bielik-Robson 2019), and its values are no longer relevant to our values. However, quite recently, some outstanding scientists, like Steven Pinker (2018), have published a good defence of the Enlightenment, claiming instead that we need the Enlightenment values . What follows is a quick overview of the defences of the Enlightenment from Adorno, Horkheimer and Habermas, and Todorov, Nussbaum and others to Pinker, arguing for pragmatic rationality. Rationality, even if it is impossible to define it with any universality from the objectivist point of view (Cartesian rationalism is impossible to defend), then it may function, together with human dignity, as a multi-faced criterium for intersubjective reality and tolerant, peaceful society.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Jarosław Płuciennik;
  Uznanie autorstwa 4.0 Międzynarodowe;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
• Date:
  2022.09.26;
  2022
• Type:
  Article
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Relation:
  Wiek Oświecenia;;
  38
• Subject:
  enlightenment;
  recent literature on enlightenment;
  defending enlightenment;
  rationality
• Identifier:
  Płuciennik, J. (2022), How to Study the Enlightenment? Study and Defend, "Wiek Oświecenia" 38, p. 172–186.;
  0137–6942;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/43386 ;
  2720–2062
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
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  image