{"product_id":"the-other-enlightenment-self-estrangement-race-and-gender-9781538160213","title":"The Other Enlightenment: Self-Estrangement, Race,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eChallenging 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 naïves, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface: Argument\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Enlightenment Beleaguered \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: Locke, Bayle, Critique and Toleration\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: Paris-Persia: Othering (and Sexing) the Enlightenment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Voltaire’s Smiling Philosophy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: Eyesight from the Blind: Diderot, Saunderson, and Humans Born Blind\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter 5: Enlightenment, Race, Slavery, and Anti-colonialism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: The Enlightenment, Sexuality, and Gender\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion: What was Enlightenment?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041213514071,"sku":"9781538160213","price":72.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781538160213.jpg?v=1750949381","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-other-enlightenment-self-estrangement-race-and-gender-9781538160213","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}