On the History of the Concept of “Enlightenment”

• The Enlightenment, the OED, and the History of Concepts, with Ngrams
• Further Thoughts on the “the Enlightenment,” the OED, the History of Concepts
• Pursuing the “Shallow Enlightenment” (Part I:  Nineteenth-Century Trash Talk)
• Deeper into the “Shallow Enlightenment” (Ludwig Tieck, George J. Adler, and Herman Melville)
• Enlightenment and Ngram Wild Card Searches
• The Fading of “True Enlightenment”
• Hans Blumenberg on Light and Truth, with some Thoughts on Eighteenth-Century Frontispieces
• Light, Truth, and Caricature:  Regarding James Gillray
• Ernst Cassirer on the Enlightenment in the Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (Part I, Part II, and Part III)
• The Word “Enlightenment”:  A German Table of Usages from 1790
• The Source List for the 1790 Table of Usages of the Word “Aufklärung”

On the History of the Concept of “the Counter-Enlightenment”

• Part I:  Nietzsche’s Role
• Part II: German Usages 1875-1925
• Part III:  Counter-Enlightenment in English (1908-1942)
• Part IV:  Charles W. Morris on Empiricism and Counter-Enlightenment
• Part V: William Barrett, Lionel Trilling, and the “Residual Legatees of the Enlightenment”
• Conclusion:  Isaiah Berlin & the “Counter-Enlightenment:”  A Reassessment

Americans and the Enlightenment

• Thomas Jefferson, An Epicurean?
• John Quincy Adams:  Translator and Anti-Jacobin
• Edes and Gill, the “Patriot Printers” and Locke’s Second Treatise
• Of Rights and Witches:  Bentham’s Critique of the Declaration of Independence
• Periods and Plots:  A Postscript to Bentham’s Critique of the Declaration of Independence
• Rights, “Unalienable” or “Inalienable”?
• Whittaker Chambers, LIFE Magazine, and the Enlightenment (Part I)
• The Woman with the Corpse in Her Carriage: Whittaker Chambers, Life Magazine, and the Enlightenment (Part 2)

Translating Kant’s Answer to the Question “What is Enlightenment?”

• The Words We Have Lost:  Translating Kant on Enlightenment
• Two Nineteenth Century Translations
• Making Sense of Aufklärung
• Voluntary Nonage?
• Out of Unmündigkeit

Kant’s Distinction Between “Public” and “Private” Uses of Reason

• Kant on the “Private” Use of Reason
• The Soldier, the Citizen, and the Clergyman, with a Postscript on Professors

Translating Moses Mendelssohn’s Answer to the Question “What is Enlightenment?”

• Moses Mendelssohn, “On Enlightening the Mind”
• The First English Translation of Moses Mendelssohn’s “What is Enlightenment?” Part I
• “Culture and Civilization”: The First English Translation of Moses Mendelssohn’s Answer to the Question “What is Enlightenment?” Part II

Making Sense of the Dialectic of Enlightenment

• What, If Anything, does Dialectic of Enlightenment have to do with the Enlightenment?
• Enlightenment as “Mass Deception”?  —  “Culture Industry” in the Dialectic of Enlightenment
• Adorno of Kant and Enlightenment (in 1959)
• “Racket,” “Monopoly,” and the Dialectic of Enlightenment

The American Exile of the Frankfurt School

• Dreyfus, Dieterle, and the Vienna Philharmonic
• Poetry After Auschwitz — What Adorno Didn’t Say
• What Was Theodor Adorno doing in Thomas Mann’s Garden?
• Horkheimer and Adorno, and the Los Angeles Times: A Report on Exilforschung in the Age of Digital Accessibility
• The Making and the Marketing of the Philosophische Fragmente:  The Early History of the Dialectic of Enlightenment (Part 1)  (Part 2)

The Curious Relationship of Theodor Adorno and Virgil Thomson

• “The True Manuscript in a Bottle” — or, How I Found Theodor Adorno’s “Lost” Translation of the Philosophie der neuen Musik
• Unbolted Manuscripts: On the Curious Relationship of Theodor Adorno and Virgil Thomson
• Theodor Adorno, Dagobert Runes, and the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
• Adorno Considers a Career Change

Habermas and the Concept of Publicity

• Publicity and the Public Sphere — Reading Habermas as a Historian of Concepts
• Habermas on Publicity II (Re:  Arendt, Koselleck, and Schmitt)

Foucault, Habermas, and the Debate that Never Was

• Part I
• Part II
• Part III
• Part IV
• Conclusion
• A Marginal Note

Foucault and the Enlightenment

• Foucault’s Review of Cassirer’s Philosophy of the Enlightenment
• Foucault on “Enlightenment” in Discipline and Publish
• Foucault’s Distinction between the “History of Ideas” and the “History of Thought”
• Foucault, the “History of Thought” and the Question of Enlightenment

“Scientism” and “the Humanities”

• Wieseltier on the Barricades
• On the Genealogy of Scientism I
• On the Genealogy of Scientism II

Karl Popper and Isaiah Berlin on Enlightenment and Liberty

• Part I
• Part II
• Part III
• How Berlin Revised the “Two Concepts” (A Concluding Philological Postscript)
• Why the Ngram Wouldn’t Have Helped Berlin