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Secular Assemblages

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Author : Marek Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-01-09

Secular Assemblages written by Marek Sullivan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-09 with Social Science categories.

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.

Secular Assemblages

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Author : Marek Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-01-09

Secular Assemblages written by Marek Sullivan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-09 with Social Science categories.

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.

The Church Review

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886

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Church Review And Ecclesiastical Regtister

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Author : Nathaniel Smith Richardson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886

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Gazetteer Of The Gujr T District

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883

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Mckeithen Weeden Island

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Author : Jerald T. Milanich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984

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The Secular Chronicle

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876

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Report On The Second Regular Settlement Of The Gujrat District Panjab

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Author : W. G. Waterfield
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1874

Report On The Second Regular Settlement Of The Gujrat District Panjab written by W. G. Waterfield and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1874 with Agriculture categories.

Variation In Anthropology Essays In Honor Of John C Mcgregor

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Author : Donald Ward Lathrap
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973

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The Christian Union

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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892

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