Other Enlightenment - Self-Estrangement, Race, and Gender

This post-colonial and feminist reading of the Enlightenment explores the proto-postmodernist practice of examining one's conclusions through the eyes of the Other. Self-estrangement to gain critical distance from one's taken-for-granted assumptions, was central to the Enlight...

List of contents

Preface: Argument
Introduction: The Enlightenment Beleaguered
Chapter 1: Locke, Bayle, Critique and Toleration
Chapter 2: Paris-Persia: Othering (and Sexing) the Enlightenment
Chapter 3: Voltaire's Smiling Philosophy
Chapter 4: Eyesight from the Blind: Diderot, Saunderson, and Humans Born Blind
Chapter 5: Enlightenment, Race, Slavery, and Anti-colonialism
Chapter 6: The Enlightenment, Sexuality, and Gender
Conclusion: What was Enlightenment?
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Matthew Sharpe

Summary

Race Sexuality and SelfEstrangement. Provides a fresh angle on the perennial philosophical topic of the Enlightenment, through a post-colonial and feminist reading of key figures.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Sharpe, Sharpe Matthew
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781538160213
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6021-3
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: Off the Fence: Morality, Politics and Society; OFF THE FENCE MORALITY POLITIC
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Renaissance, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Social & political philosophy, Modern philosophy: since c 1800, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions