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Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic
Education was decisive in recasting women's subjectivity and the felt reality of their collective experience in post-Revolutionary and antebellum America. Asking how and why women shaped their lives anew through education, Mary Kelley measures the significant transformation in individual and social identities fostered by female academies and seminaries. Constituted in a curriculum that matched the course of study at male colleges, women's liberal learning, Kelley argues, played a key role in one of the most profound changes in gender relations in the nation's history: the movement of women into public life. By the 1850s, the large majority of women deeply engaged in public life as educators, writers, editors, and reformers had been schooled at female academies and seminaries. Although most women did not enter these professions, many participated in networks of readers, literary societies, or voluntary associations that became the basis for benevolent societies, reform movements, and activism in the antebellum period. Kelley's analysis demonstrates that female academies and seminaries taught women crucial writing, oration, and reasoning skills that prepared them to claim the rights and obligations of citizenship..
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Contemporary Theories of Liberalism: Public Reason as a Post-Enlightenment Project (SAGE Politics Texts series)
`The author has provided us with a masterful overview and critique of liberal theorizing of the past quarter-century. While dealing exhaustively and fairly with each of a variety of broadly liberal approaches, Gaus also presents a compelling argument for his own preferred "justificatory" approach. His analyses range across familiar territory - Berlin, Gauthier, Baier, Habermas, social choice theory, Rawls, and so on - and are always illuminating and, taken together, provide both the newcomer and the old-hand much to ponder' - Fred D'Agostino, University of New England, Armidale `[A]ll that man is and all that raises him above animals he owes to his reason' - Ludwig von Mises Contemporary Theories of Liberalism provides students with a comprehensive overview of the key tenets of liberalism developed through Hobbes, Locke, Kant and Rawls to present day theories and debates. Central to recent debate has been the idea of public reason. The text introduces and explores seven dominant theories of public reason, namely, pluralism, Neo-Hobbesianism, pragmatism, deliberative democracy, political democracy, Rawlsian political liberalism and justificatory liberalism. As a proponent of justificatory liberalism, Gaus presents an accessible and critical analysis of all contempoary liberal political theory and powerfully illustrates the distinct and importsant contribution of justificatory liberalism. Contemporary Theories of Liberalism is essential reading for students and academics seeking a deeper understanding of liberal political theory today..
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Enlightenment's Wake RC (Routledge Classics)
John Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern whichbrought a mainstream readership to a man who was already one of the UK's most well respected thinkers and political theorists. Gray wrote Enlightenment’s Wake in 1995 – six years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and six years before the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre. Turning his back on neoliberalism at exactly the moment that its advocates were in their pomp, trumpeting 'the end of history' and the supposedly unstoppable spread of liberal values across the globe, Gray’s was a lone voice of scepticism. The thinking he criticised here would lead ultimately to the invasion of Iraq. Today, its folly might seem obvious to all, but as this edition of Enlightenment’s Wake shows, John Gray has been trying to warn us for some fifteen years – the rest of us are only now catching up with him. .
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Rome in the Age of Enlightenment: The Post-Tridentine Syndrome and the Ancien Régime (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History)
This is the only scholarly work in the English language on the city of Rome in the Age of the Enlightenment, and the only book in any language to treat this fascinating city in all its multifarious aspects. Professor Gross combines extensive archival research with the latest findings of other scholars to produce a uniquely rounded portrait of the papal capital, elegantly illustrated with contemporary engravings by Piranesi and others. The book is divided into two sections, in the first of which Professor Gross discusses the material and institutional structures of the city, including its demography, economy, food supply, and judicial systems. The second section considers aspects of intellectual, cultural, and artistic life. Professor Gross contends not only that ancien-regime Rome witnessed a decline in Counter-Reformation fervour, but that this decay resulted in a marked dissonance in the political, social, and cultural life of the city..
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Imagining the End of Life in Post-Enlightenment Poetry: Voices against the Void
David Gordon studies the changing conception of one's own death by examining the work of some of the most important poets of the last two centuries The turn from Enlightenment to Romanticism introduced a new conception of individual death that we would now call existential. As the power of religion waned and with it the consoling belief in an afterlife, writers--especially poets--began to think of death as nothingness, as void. Gordon identifies and analyzes in depth three major modes of literary response to this shifting sensibility that developed in successive waves during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: opposing the void in bold confrontation, modifying the void by recasting some element of Christian tradition, and ultimately turning away from the afterlife as no longer meaningful to focus instead--with a subtler kind of consolation--on the difficult-to-imagine cessation of consciousness.  Marginalizing writers with decided stances such as Swinburne and at the opposite extreme Hopkins, Gordon highlights writers in whom the interaction of religious and secular pressures is most apparent. Drawing upon Wittgenstein, Freud, and Burke for his theoretical orientation, Gordon provides close readings of a score of poets from Wordsworth, Byron, Tennyson, and Dickinson through Yeats, Lawrence, and Stevens to Bishop, Larkin, and Graham. In the process he distinguishes between the familiar form of elegy and his own subject, a more circumscribed, self-reflective poem, and creates telling comparisons and connections across several centuries and cultures.  Comprehensive in scope and acute in its readings, Gordon's study will appeal to critics of nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry as well as to intellectual historians.   .
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Double Dialectics: Between Universalism and Relativism in Enlightenment and Post-modern Thought.(Book review): An article from: The Modern Language Review
This digital document is an article from The Modern Language Review, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2006. The length of the article is 453 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Double Dialectics: Between Universalism and Relativism in Enlightenment and Post-modern Thought.(Book review) Author: Martin Calder Publication:The Modern Language Review (Magazine/Journal) Date: January 1, 2006 Publisher: Thomson Gale Volume: 101 Issue: 1 Page: 244(2) Article Type: Book review Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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Enlightenment's Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age
Enlightenment's Wake argues that all schools of contemporary political thought are variations on the Enlightenment Project -- the Westernizing project of a universal civilization -- and that this Enlightenment project has proved self-undermining, and is now exhausted. This was due to the project's extension of rational self-criticism and demystification to its own foundational commitments which ultimately dissolved them. Fresh thought is needed on the dilemmas of the late modern age. John Gray examines and criticizes the varieties of Enlightenment thinking that shape contemporary thought -- the fundamental liberalism of recent American political philosophy, the neo-liberal dogmas that have shaped Western policy towards postcommunist countries, and the cultural fundamentalism of the New Right. He concludes that all of these currents within recent thought founder along with the Enlightenment project that animates them. A new mode of political thinking is needed that does not seek to return to tradition nor to reaffirm the modernist outlook of the Left. Gray offers a perspective on the close of the modern age which affirms the dissolution of the modern world view without adopting the Enlightenment stance which continues to underpin postmodernism in political and cultural theory. Arguing that the roots of the disorders of modernity are in the oldest and most primordial Western traditions, Gray proposes that we abandon some of the central elements of the Enlightenment project --its assault on cultural difference, its embodiment of Western cultural imperialism in the conception of a universal civilization, and its humanist perspective on our species' relation with the natural world -- in which those traditions are expressed. Until we relinquish these traditions we will trail in Enlightenment's Wake, enlightenment cultures not by conviction but by default..
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Philosophies of History: From Enlightenment to Post-Modernity
This important book charts the development of philosophical thinking about history over the past 250 years, combining extracts from key texts with new explanatory and critical discussion. The book is designed to make the work of thinkers such as Hume, Herder, Hegel, Dilthey, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Foucault accessible to students with no prior knowledge of Western philosophy. An introductory section is followed by nine further chapters exploring contrasting schools of thought. The volume reveals the origins of contemporary trends in the discipline and relates wider philosophical reflections to the study of history itself. It also points to connections between philosophy of history and literary and cultural theory which have developed in recent decades..
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