In post-1945 German culture the Enlightenment has generally been a source of celebration. Since at least the publication of Dialektik der Aufklärung (1947), however, intellectuals have considered the possibility that Enlightenment philosophy may have contributed to twentieth-century totalitarianism.
Continue reading Beyond Heroes and Villains: Reassessing Racism in the German EnlightenmentAuthor: Morgan Golf-French
He is a Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Oxford. Before moving to Oxford he was a research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of the European Enlightenment (IZEA) at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. He completed his doctoral research on German historical thought at University College London and was a visiting researcher at the Lichtenberg-Kolleg Institute of Advanced Study in Göttingen (funded by the German Historical Institute London and the DAAD).