Were the Enlighteners racists? Was the European Enlightenment again only an elitist project, in which the gentlemen with the clever wigs did not see the beam in their own eyes? Or did modern racism even have its origin there? Sometimes one gets this impression in the heated discussions of the present. Of course, it was disturbing. [...] The article European Enlightenments and "racist" devaluations: Jewish thinkers and the blind prejudices of the…
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Were the Enlighteners racists? Was the European Enlightenment again only an elitist project, in which the gentlemen with the clever wigs did not see the beam in their own eyes? Or did modern racism even have its origin there? Sometimes one gets this impression in the heated discussions of the present. Of course, it was disturbing. [...] The article European Enlightenments and "racist" devaluations: Jewish thinkers and the blind prejudices of the…