Enlightenment and Emancipation
Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Published on 1. September 2006
Book
Hardback
233 pages
978-1-61148-232-4 (ISBN)
Description
'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 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.
Reviews / Votes
With the publication of Enlightenment and Emancipation, we at last have a true and attentive taxonomy of emancipation, a disciplined overview that examines this process in all its aspects, whether as a literary theme, a state of political affairs, a philosophical ideal, or even a musical motif. Fresh and daring...indispensable to eighteenth-century studies. -- Kevin L. Cope, Louisiana State UniversityMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cranbury
United States
Publishing group
Associated University Presses
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 167 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
200 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61148-232-4 (9781611482324)
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Persons
Susan Manning is Grierson Professor of English Literature and director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh.
Peter France is emeritus professor of French at the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the British Academy.
Peter France is emeritus professor of French at the University of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the British Academy.