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Marek Sullivan is a Research Assistant at the University of Oxford, UK. He is also a Managing Editor of the Journal of Secularism and Nonreligion and a former Editor-in-Chief of The Oxonian Review.

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Preface Acknowledgements Note on translations Introduction 1. Cartesian Secularity: ‘Disengaged Reason’, the Passions and the Public Sphere Beyond Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age (2007) 2. Enlightened Bodies I: Secular Passions, Empiricism and Civic Virtue in the ‘Radical Enlightenment’ 3. Enlightened Bodies II: The Crafting of a Secular-National Subject 4. The Ritual Mask of Oriental Despotism: Wonder and Superimposition in Montesquieu’s Lettres Persanes (1721) and De l’Esprit des Lois (1748) 5. ‘A Morbid Impression’: Race, Religion and Metaphor in Le Fanatisme, ou Mahomet (1741) Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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      Publisher Bloomsbury
      Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
      Published 9 January 2020
      ISBN-13 9781350123670
      978-1350123670
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      Humanist philosophy Nationalism and nationalist ideologies and movements Western philosophy: Enlightenment

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Marek Sullivan is a Research Assistant at the University of Oxford, UK. He is also a Managing Editor of the Journal of Secularism and Nonreligion and a former Editor-in-Chief of The Oxonian Review.

      Table of Contents
      Preface Acknowledgements Note on translations Introduction 1. Cartesian Secularity: ‘Disengaged Reason’, the Passions and the Public Sphere Beyond Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age (2007) 2. Enlightened Bodies I: Secular Passions, Empiricism and Civic Virtue in the ‘Radical Enlightenment’ 3. Enlightened Bodies II: The Crafting of a Secular-National Subject 4. The Ritual Mask of Oriental Despotism: Wonder and Superimposition in Montesquieu’s Lettres Persanes (1721) and De l’Esprit des Lois (1748) 5. ‘A Morbid Impression’: Race, Religion and Metaphor in Le Fanatisme, ou Mahomet (1741) Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

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