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A World of Disorderly Notions - Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism (Hardcover)
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A World of Disorderly Notions - Quixote and the Logic of Exceptionalism (Hardcover)
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From Jonathan Swift to Washington Irving, those looking to propose
and justify exceptions to social and political norms turned to
Cervantes's notoriously mad comic hero as a model. A World of
Disorderly Notions examines the literary and political effects of
Don Quixote, arguing that what makes this iconic character so
influential across oceans and cultures is not his madness but his
logic. Aaron Hanlon contends that the logic of quixotism is in fact
exceptionalism-the strategy of rendering oneself an exception to
everyone else's rules. As British and American societies of the
Enlightenment developed the need to question the acceptance of
various forms of imperialism and social contract theory-and to
explain both the virtues and limitations of revolutions past and
ongoing-it was Quixote's exceptionalism, not his madness, that
captured the imaginations of so many writers and statesmen. As a
consequence, the eighteenth century witnessed an explosion of
imitations of Quixote in fiction and polemical writing, by writers
such as Jonathan Swift, Charlotte Lennox, Henry Fielding, and
Washington Irving, among others. Combining literary history and
political theory, Hanlon clarifies an ongoing and immediately
relevant history of exceptionalism, of how states from Golden Age
Spain to imperial Britain to the formative United States rendered
themselves exceptions so they could act with impunity. In so doing,
he tells the story of how Quixote became exceptional.
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