Enlightenment and Modernity

ANDREA BAUMEISTER Lecturer in Politics, University of Stirling VITTORIO BUFACCHI Lecturer, Department of Politics, University College, Dublin IAN CARTER Research Fellow, Department of Political and Social Studies, University of Pavia, Italy ALISTAIR EDWARDS Lecturer in Political Thought, University of Manchester IAN HOLLIDAY Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Manchester GERAINT PARRY W.J. M.Mackenzie Professor of Government, University of Manchester MAURIZIO PASASERIN D'ENTREVES Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Manchester HILLEL STEINER Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Manchester URSULA VOGEL Senior Lecturer in Government, University of Manchester

This collection of essays is addressed to the legacy of Enlightenment thought, with respect to eighteenth-century notions of human nature, human rights, representative democracy or the nation-state, and with regard to the barbarism, including the Holocaust, allegedly unleashed by eighteenth-century ideals of civilization.This collection of essays is addressed to the legacy of Enlightenment thought, with respect to eighteenth-century notions of human nature, human rights, representative democracy or the nation-state, and with regard to the barbarism, including the Holocaust, allegedly unleashed by eighteenth-century ideals of civilization.