The Other Enlightenment
Self-Estrangement, Race, and Gender- Autor:innen:
- Verlag:
- 2023
Zusammenfassung
Challenging widespread misunderstandings, this book shows that central to key enlightenment texts was the practice of estranging taken-for-granted prejudices by adopting the perspective of Others.
The enlightenment’s key progenitors, led by Montesquieu, Voltaire and Diderot, were more empiricist than rationalist, and more critical than utopian. Moreover, each was an artful exponent of the ‘proto-postmodernist’ practice of asking Europeans to review what they considered unquestionable through the eyes of Others: Persians, women, Tahitians, Londoners, natives and naïves, the blind, and even imaginary extra-terrestrials. This book aims to show that this self-estrangement, as a means to gain critical distance from one’s taken-for-granted assumptions, was central to the enlightenment, and remains vital for critical and constructive sociopolitical thinking today.
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Bibliographische Angaben
- Copyrightjahr
- 2023
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-5381-6021-3
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-5381-6022-0
- Verlag
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Seiten
- 182
- Produkttyp
- Monographie
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Contents Kein Zugriff
- Preface Kein Zugriff
- Introduction Kein Zugriff Seiten 1 - 20
- Locke, Bayle, Critique, and Toleration Kein Zugriff Seiten 21 - 42
- Paris-Persia Kein Zugriff Seiten 43 - 62
- Voltaire’s Smiling Philosophy Kein Zugriff Seiten 63 - 86
- Eyesight from the Blind Kein Zugriff Seiten 87 - 108
- Enlightenment, Race, Slavery, and Anti-Colonialism Kein Zugriff Seiten 109 - 134
- The Enlightenment, Sexuality, and Gender Kein Zugriff Seiten 135 - 156
- Conclusion Kein Zugriff Seiten 157 - 164
- Bibliography Kein Zugriff Seiten 165 - 176
- Index Kein Zugriff Seiten 177 - 180
- About the Author Kein Zugriff Seiten 181 - 182





