Title Black enlightenment / Surya Parekh

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (x, 200 pages) Contents Black Enlightenment -- (Dis)Figuring Kant -- The Changing Rhetoric of Race -- The Character of Ignatius Sancho -- Phillis Wheatley's Providence 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR platform, viewed October 2, 2023) Subject Authors, Black -- 18th century Enlightenment. Philosophy, Black. Racism -- History -- 18th century Antislavery movements in literature. Antislavery movements -- History -- 18th century Enlightenment (18th-century western movement) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global) Antislavery movements Antislavery movements in literature Authors, Black Enlightenment Philosophy, Black Racism Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2022055631 ISBN 1478027223 9781478027225

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