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Vital materialism and the problem of ethics in the Radical Enlightenment Ghent University

Charles Wolfe
From Hegel to Engels, Sartre and Ruyer (Ruyer, 1933), to name only a few, materialism is viewed as a necropolis, or the metaphysics befitting such an abode; many speak of matter’s crudeness, bruteness, coldness or stupidity. Science or scientism, on this view, reduces the living world to ‘dead matter’, ‘brutish’, ‘mechanical, lifeless matter’, thereby also stripping it of its freedom (Crocker, 1959). Materialism is often wrongly presented as ...

How radical can enlightenment be? Ghent University

Ghent University
A special issue of the journal Philosophica (UGent) on the radical Enlightenment. Authors: Margaret Jacob (UCLA), Charles Wolfe (UGent), Boris Demarest (UGent), Elisabeth Van Dam (UGent), Florian Heyerick (HOGent) and Laura Anna Macor.

Travel as a basis for atheism: free-thinking as deterritorialization in the early radical enlightenment Ghent University

Charles Wolfe
The early modern radical savant did not travel so much as he read travel narratives. From MontaigneU+2019s cannibals to LockeU+2019s talking parrot, from LeibnizU+2019s plans to create a race of U+201Cwarrior slavesU+201D to DiderotU+2019s utopian Voyage de Bougainville, a kind of U+2018science fictionU+2019 or U+2018deterritorializationU+2019 of the narrative of the familiar, Eurocentric, Plato-to-Hegel narrative of Western philosophy can be ...

Radical Enlightenment, Enlightened Subversion, and Spinoza Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Sonja Lavaert
An important philosophical turn that took place in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Enlightenment thought was the abandonment of transcendence, the strict separation of religion and philosophy, and the rise of a one-substance immanent ontology. It has been argued that this ‘radical’ turn brought about the philosophical foundation for democracy.
According to the thesis I will defend in what follows, the immanent ontology indeed has a ...

The Ambiguity of the Term 'Radical Enlightenment' KU Leuven University of Antwerp

Guido Vanheeswijck
© 2018 by Tijdschrift voor Filosofie. All rights reserved. In this article I focus on a recent contrast - first constructed by historians and subsequently by philosophers - in the conceptual analysis of the concept 'Enlightenment'. Over the past few decades the concept radical Enlightenment has been opposed to that of a moderate variant. How are we to understand these concepts? In what way does the substantial meaning given to these two concepts ...