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Secular Assemblages : Affect, Orientalism and Power in the French Enlightenment by Marek Sullivan, Bettina E. Schmidt, Steven Sutcliffe, William Sweetman, Cox, James is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>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 Taylor's <i>A Secular Age </i>(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 the
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- Author
- Marek Sullivan, Bettina E. Schmidt, Steven Sutcliffe, William Sweetman, Cox, James
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781350123670
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Political Science, Religion, Religion, Politics & State
- Updated
- 2026-03-25