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    • Aboagora - Between Arts and Sciences 

      Illman, Ruth (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
      The editorial note presents the journal and the current issue. The purpose of this e-journal is to contribute to the plurality of voices in the academic discussion on religion. Approaching Religion aims at offering an ...
    • Dare to know, dare to tell, dare to play 

      Nowotny, Helga (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
      In her concluding statement summarising the discussions and themes presented during the workshops, lectures and concerts of the Aboagora symposium, Helga Nowotny underlines the need for researchers to be courageous and ...
    • Darkness as a metaphor in the historiography of the Enlightenment 

      Tunturi, Janne (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
      This paper concentrates on darkness as a metaphor in eighteenth century historical writing. In contrast to the celebration of light as a symbol of knowledge and progress, the interpretations of the meaning of darkness ...
    • Friedrich Schlegels early Romantic notion of religion in relation to two presuppositions of the Enlightenment 

      Nivala, Asko (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
      German early Romanticism was an intellectual movement that originated in the era between the great French Revolution of 1789 and the beginning of the Napoleonic Wars in 1803. Usually, it is defined in contrast to the ...
    • Lhitage des Lumies: The Enlightenment as an unfinished and morally demanding project 

      Wolff, Charlotta (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
      The French Enlightenment and the Revolution of 1789 have commonly been seen as forerunners of modern Western European democracies and democratic values such as inalienable human rights, freedom from oppression, equality, ...
    • Luxury and the diversity of the Age of Enlightenment 

      Pietilä, Niklas (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
      Economic thought of the eighteenth century has often been interpreted as a unitary whole, which set down the foundations of modern economics.In this essay, Pietilä discusses how the economic thinking of the era was fragmentary ...
    • Reflections 

      Behar, Ruth; Vikström, Björn; Salmi, Hannu; Illman, Ruth (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
      This final section presents a literary excerpt and three personal reflections on the theme of Aboagora, as well as on the experience of taking part in Aboagora. It opens with a story written by Ruth Behar, dealing with her ...
    • Rethinking the Enlightenment 

      Elkana, Yehuda (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
      In this introductory statement, given at the beginning of the Aboagora symposium in Turku in August 2011, Yehuda Elkana highlights the need, in accordance with the title of the conference, to rethink rather than unthink ...
    • Rethinking the Enlightenment, or thinking the Enlightenment for the first time 

      Fabiani, Jean-Louis (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
      In his famous comment on Kant’s Was ist Aufklärung?, Foucault considers that the debate ‘for’ or ‘against’ the Enlightenment has no meaning as such, and calls for a new space of inquiry that would take into account our own ...
    • The critics of false culture: On the Finnish reception of the Enlightenment 

      Rantala, Heli (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
      Heli Rantala’s contribution discusses the heritage of the Enlightenment from the perspective of Finnish nineteenth century cultural discourse. She argues that the Finnish reception of the Enlightenment had a negative tone. ...
    • The Enlightenment: A century on its way to multiculturalism 

      Luoma, Virpi (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
      This essay brings out the cultural encounters which characterise the Enlightenment and the contemporary situation. The Enlightenment was an era when cultural encounters were on the rise, but it was also a time when racist ...
    • The moving and shifting concept of culture 

      Järviluoma-Mäkelä, Helmi (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
      Today, anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, cultural, and gender scholars are interested in culture not only as it is performed, but as it is continuously done, constructed, maintained through acting, musicking, talking, ...
    • The search for happiness in the eighteenth century and today 

      Talikka, Hanna (The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi, 2011)
      The changing world of the eighteenth century and the preceding centuries challenged the traditional view of happiness and good life. Thinkers of the eighteenth century pursued happiness through their texts in various ways. ...