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	Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In their book, Dialectic of Enlightenment, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno wrote a penetrating critique of what they perceived as the contradictions of Enlightenment thought: Enlightenment was seen as being at once liberatory and, through the domination of instrumental rationality tending towards totalitarianism.
		Alternatively, the Enlightenment was used as a powerful symbol to argue for the supremacy of rationalism and rationalization, and therefore any attack on it is connected to despotism and madness, for example in the writings of Gertrude Himmelfarb.
		Himmelfarb, Gertrude The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments, 2004
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Enlightenment (3108 words)

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		Philosophers such as Michel Foucault are often understood as arguing that the "age of reason" had to construct a vision of "unreason" as being demonic and subhuman, and therefore evil and befouling, whence by analogy to argue that rationalism in the modern period is, likewise, a construction.
		Alternatively, the Enlightenment was used as a powerful symbol to argue for the supremacy of rationalism and rationalization, and therefore any attack on it is connected to despotism and madness, for example in the writings of Gertrude Himmelfarb and Robert Nozick.
		This is not to be confused with the role of specific philosophers or individuals from the Enlightenment, but the use of the term in a broad sense by writers in the present of varying points of view.
	encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/The_Age_of_Enlightenment (4804 words)

	Web of lies? Historical knowledge on the Internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In November 1996, for example, British historian Gertrude Himmelfarb offered what she called a “neo-Luddite” critique of the then relatively young Web.
		Critics like Himmelfarb and Billington point to specific trees (Web pages) that seem to be ailing or growing in bizarre directions; here we would like to join computer scientists like Vitanyi and Cilibrasi in emphasizing the overall health of the vast forest (the World Wide Web in general).
		Undoubtedly Gertrude Himmelfarb and like-minded conservatives would be pleased with this online triumph of consensus over interpreters of the past who dare to use Marxist lenses to envision the founding of the United States.[3] But challenging conventional and textbook accounts often forms an important part of understanding the past more fully.
	www.firstmonday.dk /issues/issue10_12/cohen (8395 words)

	BLOG.THISMAGAZINE.CA: June 2005 Archives
		A revisionist and slightly reactionary take on the British, French, and American enlightenments.
		Helpful, because Himmelfarb is an American conservative (married to Irving Kristol), and her hostility to the French Enlightenment is a good example of how deep the estrangement between France and America runs.
		One of the best books I've read on any topic in the past five years.
	www.blog.thismagazine.ca /archives/2005/06/index.html (5267 words)

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		An NEH-supported translation of Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamozov receives the PEN Translation Prize.
		Historian Gertrude Himmelfarb delivers the twentieth Jefferson Lecture, "Of Heroes, Villains, and Valets."
		In May, the Endowment publishes Lynne V. Cheney's National Tests: What Other Countries Expect Their Students to Know.
	www.neh.gov /whoweare/timeline.html (5404 words)

	Continental Philosophy
		Auguste Comte and Positivism : The Essential Writings (History of Ideas Series) by Comte, edited by Gertrud Lenzer, (1998, Transaction Books)
		Wittgenstein and Marx on 'Philosophical Language' by Rupert Read [Essays in Philosophy, 1:2]
		Let Marx Be Marx by Gertrude Himmelfarb, a review of Karl Marx: A Life by Francis Wheen [The New Republic, July 24, 2000]
	www3.baylor.edu /~Scott_Moore/Continental.html (7438 words)

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