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The Enlightenment: A century on its way to multiculturalism
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
This essay brings out the cultural encounters which characterise the Enlightenment and the contemporary situation. The Enlightenment was an era when cultural encounters were on the rise, but it was also a time when racist ...
Friedrich Schlegels early Romantic notion of religion in relation to two presuppositions of the Enlightenment
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
German early Romanticism was an intellectual movement that originated in the era between the great French Revolution of 1789 and the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars in 1803. Usually, it is defined in contrast to the ...
The critics of false culture: On the Finnish reception of the Enlightenment
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
Heli Rantala’s contribution discusses the heritage of the Enlightenment from the perspective of Finnish nineteenth century cultural discourse. She argues that the Finnish reception of the Enlightenment had a negative tone. ...
Dare to know, dare to tell, dare to play
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
In her concluding statement summarising the discussions and themes presented during the workshops, lectures and concerts of the Aboagora symposium, Helga Nowotny underlines the need for researchers to be courageous and ...
Reflections
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
This final section presents a literary excerpt and three personal reflections on the theme of Aboagora, as well as on the experience of taking part in Aboagora. It opens with a story written by Ruth Behar, dealing with her ...
The search for happiness in the eighteenth century and today
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
The changing world of the eighteenth century and the preceding centuries challenged the traditional view of happiness and good life. Thinkers of the eighteenth century pursued happiness through their texts in various ways. ...
Lhitage des Lumies: The Enlightenment as an unfinished and morally demanding project
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
The French Enlightenment and the Revolution of 1789 have commonly been seen as forerunners of modern Western European democracies and democratic values such as inalienable human rights, freedom from oppression, equality, ...
Aboagora - Between Arts and Sciences
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
The editorial note presents the journal and the current issue. The purpose of this e-journal is to contribute to the plurality of voices in the academic discussion on religion. Approaching Religion aims at offering an ...
Rethinking the Enlightenment
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
In this introductory statement, given at the beginning of the Aboagora symposium in Turku in August 2011, Yehuda Elkana highlights the need, in accordance with the title of the conference, to rethink rather than unthink ...
The moving and shifting concept of culture
(The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
Today, anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, cultural, and gender scholars are interested in culture not only as it is performed, but as it is continuously done, constructed, maintained through acting, musicking, talking, ...