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ENLIGHTENMENT AND EMANCIPATION
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Susan Manning (Editor), Peter France (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£44.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0838756190 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780838756195 |
| Publisher: |
ASSOCIATED UNIVERSITY PRESSES |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2006 |
| Pages: |
240 |
| Description: |
"Enlightenment" and "Emancipation" as separate issues have received critical attention, but the complicated interaction of these two shaping forces of modernity has never been scrutinized in depth. This collection of essays by distinguished scholars from many disciplines addresses the central question: "Was Enlightenment a force for emancipation?" |
| Synopsis: |
"Enlightenment" and "Emancipation" as separate issues have received much critical attention, but the complicated interaction of these two great shaping forces of modernity has never been scrutinized in depth. The Enlightenment has been represented in radically opposing ways: on the one hand, as the unshackling of the chains of superstition, custom, and usurped authority; on the other hand, in the Romantic period, but also more recently, as what Michel Foucault termed "the grate confinement," in which "mind-forged manacles" imprison the free and irrational spirit. The debate about the "Enlightenment project" remains a topical one, which can still arouse fierce passions. This collection of essays by distinguished scholars from many disciplines addresses the central question: "Was Enlightenment a force for emancipation?" Their responses, working from within and across history, political thought and economics, music, literature and aesthetics, art history and film, reveal unsuspected connections and divergences even between well-known figures and texts, in their turn suggesting the need for further inquiry in areas that turn out to be very far from closed.Major writings are considered in unusual juxtapositions; new figures of importance emerge and familiar texts are shown to embody strange and unexpected implications. Susan Manning is Grierson Professor of English Literature and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. Now retired, Peter France is a Fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Fellow of Edinburgh University. |
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US |
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Bucknell University Press,U.S. |
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