Kas yra antišvietimas?

Abstract

The anti-Enlightenment is a psychosomatic condition and sociocultural response to the pathos of the rational enlightened vision of nature. A few sets of meanings lie under these previous words. One set is related to the history of philosophical thinking in its totality. Philosophy is usually considered as an activity of human consciousness that seemingly corresponds, or reconstructs, or establishes reality in the forms of theories of knowledge, politics, ethics, education. What is at stake here is that theoretical thinking unconsciously distorts and unbalances human activity itself. Another set of meanings (intimately related to the first one) lies in the contemporary polemics on the Enlightenment, and which itself becomes a widespread sociocultural phenomenon. I summarize the warfare for and against the Enlightenment's values and ideals in the following question: Does philosophical posture's reliability pertain to the meaning philosophical discourse provides to it? My conclusion is that it is unlikely that it can be answered from the theoretical point of view.