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 Enlightenment, and remains vital for critical sociopolitical thinking today.

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 is associate professor of philosophy at Deakin University. He is the coauthor of Philosophy as a Way of Life: History, Dimensions, Directions (with M. Ure) and author of Camus, Philosophe: To Return to Our Beginnings as well as articles on the history of philosophy, and political, critical and psychoanalytic theory.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Sharpe, Sharpe Matthew
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2024
• EAN: 9781538160237
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6023-7
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: Off the Fence: Morality, Politics and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / Political, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Renaissance, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Modern philosophy: since c 1800, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions