Black enlightenment / Surya Parekh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parekh, Surya, 1976- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, Black--18th century.

Enlightenment.

Philosophy, Black.

Racism--History--18th century.

Antislavery movements in literature.

Antislavery movements--History--18th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 200 pages).

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Black Enlightenment

(Dis)Figuring Kant

The Changing Rhetoric of Race

The Character of Ignatius Sancho

Phillis Wheatley's Providence.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Parekh, Surya, 1976- Black enlightenment.

ISBN:

9781478027225

1478027223

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.