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The Other Enlightenment: Self-Estrangement, Race, and Gender

The Other Enlightenment: Self-Estrangement, Race, and Gender
Author: Matthew Sharpe
Price: $35.99
ISBN-10: 1538160226
ISBN-13: 9781538160220
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Challenging 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.<br><br>The enlightenment&rsquo;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 &lsquo;proto-postmodernist&rsquo; practice of asking Europeans to review what they considered unquestionable through the eyes of Others: Persians, women, Tahitians, Londoners, natives and na&iuml;ves, 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&rsquo;s taken-for-granted assumptions, was central to the enlightenment, and remains vital for critical and constructive sociopolitical thinking today.