Enlightenment and Emancipation
. Ed(S): Manning, Susan; France, Peter
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Hardback. Editor(s): Manning, Susan; France, Peter. Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 233 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 167 x 17. Weight in Grams: 531.
'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. ... Read more
'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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
233
Condition
New
Series
Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture
Number of Pages
233
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611482324
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V9781611482324
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About . Ed(S): Manning, Susan; France, Peter
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.
Reviews for Enlightenment and Emancipation
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.
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