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Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 1: Politics, Religion, Economy, and Society in Britain

Michael McKeon

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Description:The Enlightenment has been blamed for some of the most deadly developments of modern racism and white supremacy, imperialist oppression, capitalist exploitation, neoliberal economics, scientific positivism, totalitarian rule. These developments are thought to have grown from principles that are rooted in the soil of the abstraction, reduction, objectification, quantification, division, universalization. Michael McKeon’s new book corrects this defective view by historicizing the Enlightenment--by showing that the Enlightenment has been abstracted from its history. From its critics have ignored that Enlightenment thought is a reaction against deadly traditions that precede it. From its the Enlightenment extended its reactive analysis of the past to its own present through self-analysis and self-criticism. From its much of what’s been blamed amounts to the failure of its posterity to sustain Enlightenment principles. To historicize the Enlightenment requires that we conjure what it was like to live through the emergence of concepts and practices that are now commonplace—society, privacy, the public, the market, experiment, secularity, representative democracy, human rights, social class, sex and gender, fiction, the aesthetic attitude. McKeon’s book argues the continuity of Enlightenment thought, its consistency and integrity across this broad range of conceptual domains. It also shows how the Enlightenment has shaped our views of both tradition and modernity, and the revisionary work that needs to be done in order to understand our place in the future. In the process, Historicizing the Enlightenment exemplifies a distinctive historiography and historical method. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 1: Politics, Religion, Economy, and Society in Britain. To get started finding Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 1: Politics, Religion, Economy, and Society in Britain, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The Enlightenment has been blamed for some of the most deadly developments of modern racism and white supremacy, imperialist oppression, capitalist exploitation, neoliberal economics, scientific positivism, totalitarian rule. These developments are thought to have grown from principles that are rooted in the soil of the abstraction, reduction, objectification, quantification, division, universalization. Michael McKeon’s new book corrects this defective view by historicizing the Enlightenment--by showing that the Enlightenment has been abstracted from its history. From its critics have ignored that Enlightenment thought is a reaction against deadly traditions that precede it. From its the Enlightenment extended its reactive analysis of the past to its own present through self-analysis and self-criticism. From its much of what’s been blamed amounts to the failure of its posterity to sustain Enlightenment principles. To historicize the Enlightenment requires that we conjure what it was like to live through the emergence of concepts and practices that are now commonplace—society, privacy, the public, the market, experiment, secularity, representative democracy, human rights, social class, sex and gender, fiction, the aesthetic attitude. McKeon’s book argues the continuity of Enlightenment thought, its consistency and integrity across this broad range of conceptual domains. It also shows how the Enlightenment has shaped our views of both tradition and modernity, and the revisionary work that needs to be done in order to understand our place in the future. In the process, Historicizing the Enlightenment exemplifies a distinctive historiography and historical method. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 1: Politics, Religion, Economy, and Society in Britain. To get started finding Historicizing the Enlightenment, Volume 1: Politics, Religion, Economy, and Society in Britain, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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