What can we today read the ideologues, those thinkers who reconfigured the field of knowledge at the beginning of the XIX th century? The discovery of an ideological moment. This moment is the one that sees a radicality of the Enlightenment split between various disciplinary branches, between various conceptions of subjectivity and emancipation. The ideological moment is a moment of passage, but above all of decantation. We see emerging there, although still intertwined and united, what we are used to distinguishing: Enlightenment and romanticism, rationalism and feeling, radicalism and conservatism, necessity and voluntarism, colonialism and thirst for otherness, science and literature. |