{"id":31808,"date":"2026-06-12T12:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T10:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schoolofcommunism.com\/talk\/in-defence-of-the-enlightenment\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T15:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:36:07","slug":"in-defence-of-the-enlightenment","status":"publish","type":"talk","link":"https:\/\/schoolofcommunism.com\/fr\/talk\/in-defence-of-the-enlightenment\/","title":{"rendered":"D\u00e9fense des Lumi\u00e8res"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Le Si\u00e8cle des Lumi\u00e8res fut un apog\u00e9e de la pens\u00e9e humaine. Aujourd'hui, nous sommes en pleine lutte id\u00e9ologique contre l'irrationalit\u00e9 du capitalisme, et nous, en tant que marxistes, nous tenons comme d\u00e9fenseurs de l'essence m\u00eame des Lumi\u00e8res. Mais pas seulement. Ce chapitre exceptionnel de l'histoire humaine est une mine d'or dans laquelle nous pouvons nous armer dans la lutte pour une soci\u00e9t\u00e9 communiste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Liste de lecture<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Livres<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/marxist.com\/classics-anti-duehring.htm\">Friedrich Engels \u2013 \u201c Anti-D\u00fchring \u201d<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wellred-books.com\/the-history-of-philosophy\/\">Alan Woods \u2013 \u201c L'histoire de la philosophie \u201d<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/marxist.com\/classics-socialism-utopian-and-scientific.htm\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/marxist.com\/classics-socialism-utopian-and-scientific.htm\">Friedrich Engels \u2013 \u201c Socialisme utopique et socialisme scientifique \u201d<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/marxist.com\/classics-ludwig-feuerbach-and-the-end-of-classical-german-philosophy.htm\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/marxist.com\/classics-ludwig-feuerbach-and-the-end-of-classical-german-philosophy.htm\">Friedrich Engels \u2013 \u201c Ludwig Feuerbach et la fin de la philosophie classique allemande \u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Articles<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/marxist.com\/the-enlightenment-and-spinoza-s-revolutionary-rationalism.htm\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/marxist.com\/the-enlightenment-and-spinoza-s-revolutionary-rationalism.htm\">Hamid Alizadeh \u2013 \u201c Les Lumi\u00e8res et le rationalisme r\u00e9volutionnaire de Spinoza \u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Age of Enlightenment was a high point in human thought. Today we are in the midst of an ideological struggle against the irrationality of capitalism, and here we as Marxists stand as defenders of the very essence of the Enlightenment. But not only that. This exceptional chapter in human history is a treasure trove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1924,"featured_media":31899,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31808","talk","type-talk","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-day-3-morning-session"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>In Defence of the Enlightenment - World School of Communism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/schoolofcommunism.com\/fr\/talk\/in-defence-of-the-enlightenment\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In Defence of the Enlightenment - World School of Communism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Age of Enlightenment was a high point in human thought. 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