ДИЈАЛЕКТИКA ПРОСВЕТИТЕЉСТВА ИЛИ ДИЈАЛЕКТИКA ПРОСВЕЋЕНОСТИ
DIALECTICS OF ENLIGTENMENT OR DIALECTIC OF ENLIGHTENING

Summary/Abstract: In this article problem of the Enlightenment is analyzed through the contest among the historical-descriptive and the philosophical-normative approach to the Enlightenment, that has essentially practical-polemical sense in author’s oppinion. The author reconstructs this contest in the following way. Until the half of 20th century, the philosophical-normative concept of the Enlightenment, which was constructed by critics and enemies of the Enlightenment under the decisive influence of Hegel’s philosophy, was dominate. Since the Enlightenment is essentially disqualified by this approach, an attempt of its defense is directed at the historical study of the Enlightenment intending to be shown that the philosophicalnormative conception of the Enlightenment is construct of its critics which don’t correspond to historical facts. The author emphasizes that a rejaction of the philosophical normative approch, which reconstruct the Enlightenment through a certain synthetic principle, and an examination of the Enlightenment as historical phenomenon, result in a destruction of the very concept of the Enlightenment and a risk of the loss of meaning.

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