Research Catalog
Black enlightenment
- Title
- Black enlightenment / Surya Parekh.
- Author
- Parekh, Surya, 1976-
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
- ©2023
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Details
- Description
- x, 200 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Black Enlightenment examines how eighteenth-century Black thinkers engage with Enlightenment philosophy in ways distinct from more general narratives of freedom or oppression. Surya Parekh considers how these thinkers are situated within Enlightenment discourses of race, especially considering the complex textuality and politics of whiteness embedded in canonical thought. Parekh centers the ideas of Francis Williams (1697-1762), Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729-1780), and Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784). By critically assessing the work of these thinkers and others, Parekh unpacks their relationship to an Enlightenment philosophy dependent on slavery and the construction of the Black subject. Parekh's work not only informs many active fields of scholarship around the Black Atlantic and the intellectual history of the Enlightenment, but also investigates a confrontation between a confrontation between philosophy and Black thought that still inhabits global movements today"--
- Subject
- 1700-1799
- Authors, Black > 18th century
- Enlightenment
- Philosophy, Black
- Racism > History > 18th century
- Racism against Black people > History > 18th century
- Antislavery movements in literature
- Antislavery movements > History > 18th century
- Antislavery movements
- Antislavery movements in literature
- Authors, Black
- Enlightenment
- Philosophy, Black
- Racism
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Black Enlightenment -- (Dis)Figuring Kant -- The Changing Rhetoric of Race -- The Character of Ignatius Sancho -- Phillis Wheatley's Providence.
- Call Number
- Sc E 23-1319
- ISBN
- 9781478020264
- 1478020261
- 9781478025191
- 1478025190
- 9781478027225 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2022055630
- OCLC
- 1356011081
- Author
- Parekh, Surya, 1976- author.
- Title
- Black enlightenment / Surya Parekh.
- Publisher
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1700-1799
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 23-1319