P.O. Enquist, postmodernism, and the defense of the enlightenment.(Per Olov Enquist)(Era overview)(Critical essay) From: Scandinavian Studies | Date: September 22, 2007| Author: Brantly, Susan | COPYRIGHT 2007 Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

THE ENLIGHTENMENT has become a vexed point of controversy in the postmodern

era. In Dialektik der Aufklarung (1944), Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno argue that the universalisms and instrumental reason of the Enlightenment lead to the inhumanity of Auschwitz. Jean-Francois Lyotard similarly blames Enlightenment thinking for "the totalitarian and ecological nightmares that have bedeviled the twentieth century" (Boyne 3). In contrast, both Jurgen Habermas and Richard Rorty...

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