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Enlightenment Shadows (Paperback)
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Enlightenment Shadows (Paperback)
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The idea of the Enlightenment has become a touchstone for emotive
and often contradictory articulations of contemporary western
values. Enlightenment Shadows is a study of the place of
Enlightenment thought in intellectual history and of its continued
relevance. Genevieve Lloyd focuses especially on what is
distinctive in ideas of intellectual character offered by key
Enlightenment thinkers-on their attitudes to belief and scepticism;
on their optimism about the future; and on the uncertainties and
instabilities which nonetheless often lurk beneath their use of
imagery of light. The book is organized around interconnected close
readings of a range of texts: Montesquieu's Persian Letters;
Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary; Hume's essay The Sceptic; Adam
Smith's treatment of sympathy and imagination in Theory of Moral
Sentiments; d'Alembert's Preliminary Discourse to the
Encyclopedia-together with Diderot's entry on Encyclopedia;
Diderot's Rameau's Nephew; and Kant's essay Perpetual Peace.
Throughout, the readings highlight ways in which Enlightenment
thinkers enacted in their writing-and reflected on-the interplay of
intellect, imagination, and emotion. Recurring themes include: the
nature of judgement-its relations with imagination and with ideals
of objectivity; issues of truth and relativism; the ethical
significance of imagining one's self into the situations of others;
cosmopolitanism; tolerance; and the idea of the secular.
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