An Answer to the Question: 'What is Enlightenment?' | Penguin Great Ideas

An Answer to the Question: 'What is Enlightenment?' | Penguin Great IdeasThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. Immanuel Kant was one of

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one of Italy's most important and original philosophers

and all of them newly rendered into English in brilliant translations by Andrew Hurley

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the women have no memory of how they got there

Written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963

Nanako meets an eclectic range of strangers

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cultural and religious settings

spanning across different ideas such as space and time

where he sees with devastating clarity how easily we are misled by nationalist narratives

when Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atomic bomb ever dropped on a city