LEADER 03511oam 22007572a 450 001 9910495860503321 005 20230421033338.0 010 $a9780520913462 010 $a0520913469 010 $a9780585031804 010 $a0585031800 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520913462 035 $a(CKB)111000211184408 035 $a(MH)003280873-9 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000139294 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12046263 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000139294 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10009637 035 $a(PQKB)10578264 035 $a(DE-B1597)570331 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520913462 035 $a(OCoLC)1198930986 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30771800 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30771800 035 $a(OCoLC)1409027737 035 $a(Perlego)4258197 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111000211184408 100 $a19920923d1993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDilemmas of enlightenment $estudies in the rhetoric and logic of ideology /$fOscar Kenshur 205 $aReprint 2020 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc1993 215 $a1 online resource (x, 258 p. ) 225 0 $aThe New historicism Dilemmas of enlightenment 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a9780520081550 311 0 $a0520081552 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$t1. Ideological Essentialism and How to Avoid It --$t2. Dryden's Religio Laid and the Politics of Scriptural Deism --$t3. Bayle's Theory of Toleration: The Politics of Certainty and Doubt --$t4. Paganism, Christianity, and the Social Order --$t5. Cosmic Politics and Counter-hypothetical Fictions --$t6. Authorized Expérience: Narration and Moral Knowledge in Rasselas --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aOscar Kenshur combines trenchant analyses of important early-modern texts with a powerful critique of postmodern theories of ideology. He thereby contributes both to our understanding of Enlightenment thought and to contemporary debates about cultural studies and critical theory. While striving to resolve "dilemmas" occasioned by conflicting intellectual and political commitments, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers often relied upon ideas originally used by their enemies to support very different claims. Thus, they engaged in what Kenshur calls "intellectual co-optation." In exploring the ways in which Dryden, Bayle, Voltaire, Johnson, and others used this technique, Kenshur presents a historical landscape distinctly different from the one constructed by much contemporary theory. 410 4$aThe New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics Series 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aIdeology in literature 606 $aToleration in literature 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aIdeology in literature 606 $aToleration in literature 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aIdeology in literature. 615 0$aToleration in literature. 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aIdeology in literature. 615 0$aToleration in literature. 676 $a801 700 $aKenshur$b Oscar$f1942-$01233720 801 0$bDLC 801 1$bDLC 801 2$bDLC 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495860503321 996 $aDilemmas of enlightenment$92865508 997 $aUNINA