Description: Secular Assemblages : Affect, Orientalism and Power in the French Enlightenment, Paperback by Sullivan, Marek, ISBN 1350272361, ISBN-13 9781350272361, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
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 Taylors 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 Descartess last work Les Passions de lme (1649) to Baron dHolbachs 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. Mahomets racial profile in Voltaires 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 peoples 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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Book Title: Secular Assemblages : Affect, Orientalism and Power in the French
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Secular Assemblages : Affect, Orientalism and Power in the French Enlightenment
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Subject: General, History, Religion, Politics & State, Sociology of Religion
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2022
Item Weight: 13 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Religion, Social Science
Author: Marek Sullivan
Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Religious Studies
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
