{"product_id":"9781538160213","title":"The Other Enlightenment : Self-Estrangement, Race, and Gender (Off the Fence: Morality, Politics and Society)","description":"\u003cp\u003eChallenging widespread misunderstandings, this book shows that central to key enlightenment texts was the practice of estranging taken-for-granted prejudices by adopting the perspective of Others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe enlightenment's key progenitors, led by Montesquieu, Voltaire and Diderot, were more empiricist than rationalist, and more critical than utopian. Moreover, each was an artful exponent of the 'proto-postmodernist' practice of asking Europeans to review what they considered unquestionable through the eyes of Others: Persians, women, Tahitians, Londoners, natives and naïves, the blind, and even imaginary extra-terrestrials. This book aims to show that this self-estrangement, as a means to gain critical distance from one's taken-for-granted assumptions, was central to the enlightenment, and remains vital for critical and constructive sociopolitical thinking today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49422093779171,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9781538160213-1.jpg?v=1788393855","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9781538160213","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}