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- Secular Assemblages: Affect, Orientalism and Power in the French Enlightenment
Marek Sullivan
Secular Assemblages: Affect, Orientalism and Power in the French Enlightenment
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ISBN: 9781350123670
Autorius : Marek Sullivan
Leidimo metai: 2020
Leidėjas: Bloomsbury Academic
Puslapių skaičius: 264
Leidinio kalba: Anglų
Formatas: Kieti viršeliai
Formatas: 234×156
Autorius : Marek Sullivan
Leidimo metai: 2020
Leidėjas: Bloomsbury Academic
Puslapių skaičius: 264
Leidinio kalba: Anglų
Formatas: Kieti viršeliai
Formatas: 234×156
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In this book, Marek Sullivan challenges a widespread consensus linking secularization to rationalization, and argues for a more sensual genealogy of secularity connected to affect, race and power. While existing works of secular intellectual history, especially Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age (2007), tend to rely on rationalistic conceptions of Enlightenment thought, Sullivan offers an alternative perspective on key thinkers such as Descartes, Montesquieu and Diderot, asserting that these figures sought to reinstate emotion against the rationalistic tendencies of the past. From Descartes’s last work Les Passions de l’Âme (1649) to Baron d’Holbach’s System of Nature (1770), the French Enlightenment demonstrated an acute understanding of the limits of reason, with crucial implications for our current ‘postsecular’ and ‘postliberal’ moment. Sullivan also emphasizes the importance of Western constructions of Oriental religions for the history of the secular, identifying a distinctively secular—yet impassioned—form of Orientalism that emerged in the 18th century. Mahomet’s racial profile in Voltaire’s Le Fanatisme, ou Mahomet (1741), for example, functioned as a polemic device calibrated for emotional impact, in line with Enlightenment efforts to generate an affective body of anti-Catholic propaganda that simultaneously shored up people’s sense of national belonging. By exposing the Enlightenment as a nationalistic and affective movement that resorted to racist, Orientalist and emotional tropes from the outset, Sullivan ultimately undermines modern nationalist appeals to the Enlightenment as a mark of European distinction.
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