Summary
Aleksandar Molnar: Discussion on Enlightenment, Liberalism and Nationalism in Prussia
The Play of Light in the Reason of the 18th Century
The first book of Aleksandar Molnar's Discussion on Enlightenment, Liberalism and Nationalism is dedicated to those stratifications of political philosophy in the second half of the 17th and in the 18th century that led to the formation of the ideological configuration of the modern era. Molnar analyzes this process through the four most important cases: Dutch (through the establishment of republicanism on pantheistic foundations in Spinoza's political philosophy), English (through the opening of early liberalism to national mercantilism), American (through the confrontation of liberalism and republicanism in the ranks of the "founding fathers") and French (through the fusion of democracy with atheism). of the Enlightenment towards the theory of state reason, until the moment when, in Hegel's political philosophy, the flight of Minerva's owl heralds the gradual numbing of all the rays of the Enlightenment in the growing darkness of state reason, set on new nationalistic foundations.
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