Enlightenment = Aufklarung
From Wikipedia: The term "Enlightenment" came into use in English during the mid-18th century, [2] with particular reference to French philosophy, as the equivalent of a term then in use by German writers, Zeitalter der Aufklärung , signifying officially the philosophical outlook of the 18th century. However, the German term Aufklärung was not merely applied retrospectively; it was already the common term by 1784, when Immanuel Kant published his influential essay Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment? * First page of Kant's Essay (1799 version) [Wikimedia Commons] * A translation of Michel Foucault's essay "What is Enligtenment?" (which I first found years ago in my Foucault Reader) can be found here: http://philosophy.eserver.org/foucault/what-is-enlightenment.html It's worth a read (several reads), but I'll just quote Foucault's final sentence here: I do not know whether it must be said today that the critical task...