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TRUE AND FALSE ENLIGHTENMENT: GERMAN SCHOLARS AND THE DISCOURSE OF CATHOLICISM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Ist Teil von
The Catholic historical review, 2011-01, Vol.97 (1), p.24-45
Ort / Verlag
Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2011
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This article reinterprets Catholic hostility toward the Enlightenment in the nineteenth century. Reading the efforts of German-Catholic scholars to distinguish "true" from "false" Enlightenment, it argues that this differentiation was part of a broader discourse of Catholicism through which Catholics sought to engage the modern world. More than merely an instance of co-opting a hegemonic terminology, laying claim to "true" Enlightenment helped scholars in three distinct ways: It legitimized their own scholarly praxis, served as a way of managing anxiety over Catholic involvement in the Enlightenment, and provided a framework for pinpointing Catholicism's cultural uniqueness. By reassessing Catholic hostility to one major tenet of modernity in this way, the article steps outside the "master narrative of secularization" and joins a growing tendency to approach religion from a postsecular perspective.