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For the Kant Year 2024: From the quest for knowledge and the new science to questions about religion, the equality and freedom of individuals, and the demand for civil rights, as well as mercantilism and cosmopolitanism - many themes that the Enlightenment dealt with are still the foundation of our society today. And we continue to strive for some of these goals. Three hundred years ago, the great Enlightenment thinker Immanuel Kant was born - a fitting occasion to reflect on the long 18th century. What are the central themes of this era? What contradictions and ambivalences, what conflicts over concepts and demands emerge? This comprehensive publication, compiled by international experts, also explores the changed notions of science, equality, and tolerance in comparison to then and now.