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...cast for a while, but I could modify my behaviour. So I had a chance to heal. I don’t-- today, I’m just trying to think whether, actually, it’s more difficult today to recover from something like this, because we’ve got computers and cars and things, or whether it actually would be easier to recover today. MATHIJS LUCASSEN Well, we’d certainly have the ways in...

...cast doubts on the reformist ambitions of the Enlightenment...The Enlightenment: 8.4 The Enlightenment and modernity - In its desire to replace outmoded, irrational ways of thinking by the rational, the sensible and the progressive, the Enlightenment was self-consciously modern. A manifestly scientific age and the visible advancement of knowledge in the eighteenth century...

...cast them aside as soon as they lost their relevance and usefulness. Furthermore, while it was not bothered about the overall consistency and coherence of its propaganda, the need to appeal to different shades of political opinion meant that the image of the emperor would ideally balance contradictory elements, reconciling sacred and secular, monarchical and...