The Enlightenment holds a shared substrate despite its internal diversity

Evidence

Yet, it is eminently arguable that the Enlightenment in its totality—and despite its Kierkegaards and Herders, for example—exhibits a paradigm, featuring a shared substrate of assumptions and presuppositions that bestows on it a certain unity, despite its internal multiplicity. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 71

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Dialectic of Enlightenment conflates two distinct concepts of enlightenment forced together. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1395