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Sinopsis

On the 300th anniversary of Kant's birth, 2024: From the search for knowledge and a new kind of science to debates about religion, human equality and freedom of mankind, the demand for civil rights, mercantilism and cosmopolitanism - many issues that great thinkers of the Enlightenment dealt with are now fundamental to our society. And we are still striving for some goals.

The great Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant was born 300 years ago - a perfect occasion to take a closer look at the "long 18th century". What were the most important debates at the time? What contradictions and ambivalences, conflicts over concepts and demands can be revealed today? This comprehensive publication with contributions by international experts explores the changing ideas of science, equality and tolerance of the past and the present.

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Raphael Gross is the president of the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin.

Liliane Weissberg is professor in the arts and sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

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On the 300th anniversary of Kant's birth, 2024: From the search for knowledge and a new kind of science to debates about religion, human equality and freedom of mankind, the demand for civil rights, mercantilism and cosmopolitanism - many issues that great thinkers of the Enlightenment dealt with are now fundamental to our society. And we are still striving for some goals.

The great Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant was born 300 years ago - a perfect occasion to take a closer look at the "long 18th century". What were the most important debates at the time? What contradictions and ambivalences, conflicts over concepts and demands can be revealed today? This comprehensive publication with contributions by international experts explores the changing ideas of science, equality and tolerance of the past and the present.

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