The Other Enlightenment

Matthew Sharpe

doi:10.5771/9781538160220

The Other Enlightenment

Self-Estrangement, Race, and Gender

Erschienen 2023

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doi.org/10.5771/9781538160220
ISBN print: 978-1-5381-6021-3
ISBN online: 978-1-5381-6022-0
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

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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.

Schlagworte

Gender Slavery colonialism Gender studies cultural studies Postcolonial theory continental philosophy feminist theory European cultural history French literary studies

Keywords

critical theory enlightenment sexuality race

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Preface
- Contents
- Preface
1–20 Introduction 1–20
21–42 Locke, Bayle, Critique, and Toleration 21–42
43–62 Paris-Persia 43–62
63–86 Voltaire’s Smiling Philosophy 63–86
87–108 Eyesight from the Blind 87–108
109–134 Enlightenment, Race, Slavery, and Anti-Colonialism 109–134
135–156 The Enlightenment, Sexuality, and Gender 135–156
157–164 Conclusion 157–164
165–176 Bibliography 165–176
177–180 Index 177–180
181–182 About the Author 181–182

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