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Book SynopsisMarek 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 ContentsPreface 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
