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Between Friedrich Meinecke and Ernst Cassirer: Isaiah Berlin’s Bifurcated Enlightenment
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This chapter explores the hitherto neglected influence of Friedrich Meinecke on Isaiah Berlin’s distinction between a mostly French Enlightenment and its alleged rivals in Germany. Highlighting the structural and terminological similarities between Berlin’s account of the Counter-Enlightenment and Meinecke’s description of the precursors of historicism, it also provides as yet unpublished evidence from Berlin’s correspondence to this effect. Berlin’s endorsement of Meinecke’s dichotomy between Enlightenment and pre-historicism is situated against his distaste for attempts to reveal cross-currents and common themes in eighteenth-century thought. This aversion to the study of transnational links in the Enlightenment is manifest in Berlin’s hostile reaction to Ernst Cassirer’s work on the topic.
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- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198783930.003.0004
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- Oxford University Press
- Host title:
- Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment
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- Oxford
- Publication date:
- 2016-10-27
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- Lifschitz
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- 2016
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- © the several contributors 2016. This is the Accepted Manuscript version of the chapter. The final version is available online from Oxford University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198783930.003.0004
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