Postmodernism and the Enlightenment : New Perspectives in Eighteenth-Century French Intellectual History
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
041592796X
ISBN-13
9780415927963
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 4th, 2000
Print length
236 Pages
Weight
567 grams
Product Classification:
Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900History of ideas
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Demonstrates an exciting new scholarship that confidently mixes the empiricism of Enlightenment thought with a strong postmodernist scepticism.
Why is postmodernist discourse so biased against the Enlightenment? Indeed, postmodern theory challenges the validity of the rational basis of modern historical scholarship and the Enlightenment itself. Rather than avoiding this conflict, the contributors to this vibrant collection return to the philosophical roots of the Enlightenment, and do not hesitate to look at them through a postmodernist lens, engaging issues like anti-Semitism, Utopianism, colonial legal codes, and ideas of authorship. Dismissing the notion that the two camps are ideologically opposed and thus incompatible, these essays demonstrate an exciting new scholarship that confidently mixes the empiricism of Enlightenment thought with a strong postmodernist skepticism, painting a subtler and richer historical canvas.
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