The Other Enlightenment - Self-Estrangement, Race, and Gender (Hardcover)

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 naives, 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.

General

Imprint:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Off the Fence: Morality, Politics and Society
Release date:	March 2023
Authors:	Matthew Sharpe
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-1-5381-6021-3
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > History of ideas, intellectual history Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN:	1-5381-6021-8
Barcode:	9781538160213

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