Enlightenment: a new grounding?

As the east European bloc comes out of its slumber Dan Chitoiu suggests that it offers a differing grounding to modernity than the traditional one of Rationality of The Enlightenment. He sugggest that especially in the latter half of the 20th century the tools became available with which to resuscitate the cultural perspectives of eastern Europe; in particular its spirituality. The Founding Ideas of the Modern Cultural Horizon and the Meanings of Reason.
Elsewhere Joseph Lewandowski reassesses Kant's 'what is enlightenment' and sees in it principlally Kant's attempt to understand the relationship between Reason and constraints and what might we understand by the 'reflexive use of reason'. More.
Amy Crawford examines the use made in The Enlightenment of Utopian texts in part generated the era's sense of historical optimism. She illustrates her thesis by taking three texts: Thomas More's Utopia (1516), a tra-ditional utopian model, as a product of the Renaissance and the age of dis-covery; Aphra Behn's Oroonoko (1688), a dystopic text, as a text of Resto-ration, the age of desolation; and Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall (1762), a feminist utopian text. More.
Tzvetan Todorov has something of a stir with his new book: The Defence of the Enlightenment. However in his review of the book John Gray finds it to be an exemplar of 'enlightenment fundamentalism' with all its attendant 'childish mentality'.
In the New Statesman Jonathan Derbyshire interviews Todorov in which amongst other things he attacks Scientism and argues Religion to be a basic human need. More.
There is this podcast of an interview with Todorov in Philosophy Bites.
The Humanist has this dialogue between Todorov and AC Grayling.
The first chapter of Jonathan Israel's A Revolution of the Mind is available from here. It examines the sources of some of the radical ideas of the Enlightenment.
Dr. Stephen Bronner talks about his new book: Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Towards a politics of radical engagement. Part 1 | Part 2
Fjordman however examines the underbelly of the Enlightenment in The Cult of Reason – The Dark Side of the Enlightenment
Zeev Sternhell's The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition is reviewed by Adam Kirsch in The Tablet.
In Whose Modernity? Which Revolution? Thomas Hibbs reviews David Walsh's The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence which he thinks is a spirited defence of modernity.
Also Prince Charles declares war on the enlightment. As the Prince said: "We cannot go on like this, just imagining that the principles of the Enlightenment still apply now. I don’t believe they do. But if you challenge people who hold the Enlightenment as the ultimate answer to everything, you do really upset them."