Kant and the Berlin Enlightenment (translated from German by A. Yu. Shachina, S.V Shachin, edited by I. D. Koptsev)

This article compares the concepts of enlightenment formulated by M. Mendelssohn in the article “On the question: what does ‘to enlighten’ mean?” and I. Kant in the article “An Answer to the Question: ‘What is Enlightenment?’”. The author emphasises the paramount significance of Kant’s Copernican turn, which assigns the agent the responsibility for everything they do and everything that depends on them and facilitates, inHabermas’s words, “the structural transformation of the public sphere”.