The Other Enlightenment: Self-Estrangement, Race, and Gender

by Matthew Sharpe

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1538160234

ISBN13:9781538160237

Release Date:November 2024

Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Length:194 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"

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