This Is Enlightenment - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226761487 ISBN 13: 9780226761480

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2010

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“Clifford Siskin’s and William Warner’s "This Is Enlightenment" is nothing less than a major reconsideration of the nature of the historical Enlightenment, understood with forceful originality and historical specificity as an event in the history of mediation, an effect of the proliferation of new kinds of mediation in the eighteenth century. Twenty uniformly provocative essays explore this issue from an exciting variety of perspectives. This book will be essential reading for all those who seek to understand the Enlightenment’s origins and the conditions for its emergence as a form of thought rather than simply a set of ideas or a cultural moment.”—John Richetti, University of Pennsylvania
--John Richetti, University of Pennsylvania

"Clifford Siskin's and William Warner's "This Is Enlightenment" is nothing less than a major reconsideration of the nature of the historical Enlightenment, understood with forceful originality and historical specificity as an event in the history of mediation, an effect of the proliferation of new kinds of mediation in the eighteenth century. Twenty uniformly provocative essays explore this issue from an exciting variety of perspectives. This book will be essential reading for all those who seek to understand the Enlightenment's origins and the conditions for its emergence as a form of thought rather than simply a set of ideas or a cultural moment."

--John Richetti, University of Pennsylvania

Clifford Siskin s and William Warner s "This Is Enlightenment" is nothing less than a major reconsideration of the nature of the historical Enlightenment, understood with forceful originality and historical specificity as an event in the history of mediation, an effect of the proliferation of new kinds of mediation in the eighteenth century. Twenty uniformly provocative essays explore this issue from an exciting variety of perspectives. This book will be essential reading for all those who seek to understand the Enlightenment s origins and the conditions for its emergence as a form of thought rather than simply a set of ideas or a cultural moment.
--John Richetti, University of Pennsylvania"

About the Author:

Clifford Siskin is the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Professor of English and American Literature at New York University. William Warner is professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0226761487
• ISBN 13: 9780226761480
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 518
• Editor: Siskin Clifford, Warner William