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American Studies Today Online, Volume 20, 2013, ISSN 2044-804X

Immanuel KantEnlightened Independence and the Origins of its American Radicalization

by Joel Wilson

Through a thematic comparison of the notion of independence found in Immanuel Kant's seminal essay, "What is Enlightenment?" and various texts of the Radical American Enlightenment, Joel Wilson argues that America, as nation and idea, could not ever have fully accepted the European model of Enlightenment articulated by Kant and others.

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