Enlightenment and emancipation
by France, Peter Manning, Susan
"The Enlightenment has been represented in radically opposing ways: on the one hand, as the throwing off 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 great 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…
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- Full title :Enlightenment and emancipation / edited by Susan Manning and Peter France.
Summary
"The Enlightenment has been represented in radically opposing ways: on the one hand, as the throwing off 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 great 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 various disciplines addresses the central question: "Was Enlightenment a force for emancipation?" Their responses, working from within, and frequently across the disciplinary lines of history, political science, economics, music, literature, aesthetics, art history, and film, reveal unsuspected connections and divergences even between well-known figures and texts. In their turn, the essays suggest the need for further inquiry in areas that turn out to be very far from closed. The volume considers major writings in unusual juxtaposition; highlights new figures of importance; and demonstrates familiar texts to embody strange implications."--Publisher's website.
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- Publication Date:©2006.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bucknell University Press
- Place of Publication:Lewisburg, Pa
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2006.
The Physical Object
- Description:233 pages ; : 25 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0838756190, 9780838756195
- oclc:ocm64453311
- LC Classification:CB411
- Dewey Decimal:940.2/5
Table of Contents
Condorcet and the abolition of slavery in the French colonies / David Williams -- Toleration and emancipation: "c'est la faute à Voltaire?" / John Renwick -- The figure of emancipation: paradox, rhetoric, and the enlightenments of Rousseau and Burke / Paddy Bullard -- The rhetoric of liberty: playing to the crowd in the American and French revolutions / Glynis Ridley -- History and the teleology of civility in the Scottish enlightenment / Murray Pittock -- Science and sedition in Bourbon South America / Anthony McFarlane -- Enlightenment, emancipation, and the Queen Consort / Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly -- Falling out of love with Rousseau: Madame Roland, Mary Wollstonecraft, and emancipation by the pen / Siân Reynolds -- Prospects of the American republic, 1795-1821: the radical and Utopian politics of Robina Millar and Frances Wright / Jane Rendall -- Learning to be critical: Diderot's salons and the task of enlightenment / Angelica Gooden -- "Magic numbers and persuasive sound": musical enlightenment in revolutionary America / Catherine Jones -- Enlightened texts and decaying evidence / Susan Manning -- The wild child: Truffaut, Itard, and the two faces of enlightenment / Peter Fran…
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