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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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Enlightened Independence and the Origins of its American Radicalization
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