Was the Enlightenment ever more than a minority program of thinkers between Paris, Edinburgh and Princeton? How far is the age of lights, la siècle des lumieres, from the present? Has the ethical and moral legacy of cosmopolitan, cosmopolitan, endlessly curious thinking ever been more discredited and under ideological attack than it is today, especially today? Has the world landed in the “Dark Enlightenment”, an orcus teeming with webs of lies, auto-suggestive alternative realities and infernal capital letters like X?
