03511oam 22007572a 450 991049586050332120230421033338.0978052091346205209134699780585031804058503180010.1525/9780520913462(CKB)111000211184408(MH)003280873-9(SSID)ssj0000139294(PQKBManifestationID)12046263(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139294(PQKBWorkID)10009637(PQKB)10578264(DE-B1597)570331(DE-B1597)9780520913462(OCoLC)1198930986(MiAaPQ)EBC30771800(Au-PeEL)EBL30771800(OCoLC)1409027737(Perlego)4258197(EXLCZ)9911100021118440819920923d1993 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrDilemmas of enlightenment studies in the rhetoric and logic of ideology /Oscar KenshurReprint 2020Berkeley University of California Pressc19931 online resource (x, 258 p. )The New historicism Dilemmas of enlightenmentBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780520081550 0520081552 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface --1. Ideological Essentialism and How to Avoid It --2. Dryden's Religio Laid and the Politics of Scriptural Deism --3. Bayle's Theory of Toleration: The Politics of Certainty and Doubt --4. Paganism, Christianity, and the Social Order --5. Cosmic Politics and Counter-hypothetical Fictions --6. Authorized Expérience: Narration and Moral Knowledge in Rasselas --Notes --IndexOscar Kenshur combines trenchant analyses of important early-modern texts with a powerful critique of postmodern theories of ideology. He thereby contributes both to our understanding of Enlightenment thought and to contemporary debates about cultural studies and critical theory. While striving to resolve "dilemmas" occasioned by conflicting intellectual and political commitments, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers often relied upon ideas originally used by their enemies to support very different claims. Thus, they engaged in what Kenshur calls "intellectual co-optation." In exploring the ways in which Dryden, Bayle, Voltaire, Johnson, and others used this technique, Kenshur presents a historical landscape distinctly different from the one constructed by much contemporary theory.The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics SeriesLiteraturePhilosophyIdeology in literatureToleration in literatureLiteraturePhilosophyIdeology in literatureToleration in literatureLiteraturePhilosophy.Ideology in literature.Toleration in literature.LiteraturePhilosophy.Ideology in literature.Toleration in literature.801Kenshur Oscar1942-1233720DLCDLCDLCBOOK9910495860503321Dilemmas of enlightenment2865508UNINA