The birth of modernity from the spirit of criticism

Book review on Blandl Borbála et al. (szerk.): „A kritika fogalma a XVII-XVIII. században”. Budapest, Áron Kiadó, 2019.

Abstract

In my review I would like to provide an overview about the volume, in which the written version of the presentations is published, which were kept at the conference “The Concept of Criticism in the 17th and 18th Century”, which was organized together by the “Critical Studies” Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and University of Sciences of Pécs on the one hand, and the Department of Modern and Contemporary Philosophy of Eötvös Loránd University; and which conference took place on the 22nd of June, 2018. In this review I focus first of all on the leading motif of the conference, which is – in my interpretation – that the concept of criticism had a crucial role in the birth and formation of Modern Philosophy in particular, and – in general – of Modernity as such, as a cultural formation and epoch.