Banca de DEFESA: José Lourenço de Sant' Anna Filho

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : José Lourenço de Sant' Anna Filho
DATE: 21/12/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Online
TITLE:

The Question of Counter-Enlightenment: Isaiah Berlin and historiography (1973-2013)

KEY WORDS:

Isaiah Berlin; Counter-Enlightenment; historiography; antiphilosophy; antiphilosophie

PAGES: 180
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

In 1973, Isaiah Berlin published an influential article entitled Counter-Enlightenment, which has since
been the subject of considerable academic debate. For Berlin, the Counter-Enlightenment is represented
by authors who opposed the exegesis of reason and other universalist aspects propagated by
Enlightenment philosophes. In this study, therefore, we investigated the conception of CounterEnlightenment outlined by Berlin and its influence on historiography. Our main objective is to analyze
how and for what reasons Isaiah Berlin united under this term authors as diverse as the Neapolitan
Giambattista Vico (1688-1744), the French Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821) and the German Johann
Hamann (1730-1788 ) and Johann Herder (1744-1803). Furthermore, the legacy of Berlin's work is
perennial in historiography, although there are criticisms of his work. In this sense, we scrutinized the
reception of Berlin's article in historiography through the analysis of books written on this topic and
articles published in international academic journals. If, on the one hand, there are authors who defend
Berlin's postulations, even criticizing his mistakes, on the other hand, there are historians who
pragmatically move away from this conception and argue that the Counter-Enlightenment did not even
exist. Therefore, we will investigate the manifestations contrary to the Enlightenment that occurred in
the 18th century, represented by authors who called themselves anti-philosophes. Thus, our objective is
to understand the dimensions of Isaiah Berlin's text in understanding the variations around modernity
and its respective influence on historiography regarding this theme.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - JOÃO DE AZEVEDO E DIAS DUARTE - PUC - RJ
Interno - 1262485 - BRUNO LEAL PASTOR DE CARVALHO
Presidente - 3126263 - DANIEL GOMES DE CARVALHO
Externo à Instituição - MARCUS VINÍCIUS FURTADO DA SILVA OLIVEIRA - UFU