{"product_id":"black-enlightenment-9781478020264","title":"Black Enlightenment","description":"In\u003ci\u003e Black Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e Surya Parekh reimagines the Enlightenment from the position of the Black subject. Parekh examines the works of such Black writers as the free Jamaican Francis Williams (1697-1762), Afro-British thinker Ignatius Sancho (1729?-1780), and Afro-American poet Phillis Wheatley (1753?-1784), placing them alongside those of their white European contemporaries David Hume (1711-1776) and Immanuel Kant (1724-1804). By rethinking the Enlightenment and its canons, Parekh complicates common understandings of the Enlightenment wherein Black subjects could exist only in negation to white subjects. \u003ci\u003eBlack Enlightenment\u003c\/i\u003e points to the anxiety of race in Hume, Kant, and others while showing the importance of Black Enlightenment thought. Parekh prompts us to consider the timeliness of reading Black Enlightenment authors who become \"free\" in a society hostile to that freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSurya Parekh is Assistant Professor of English, General Literature, and Rhetoric at Binghamton University and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eLiving Translation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50392278434066,"sku":"9781478020264","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e790b88b-b129-488e-99d7-497acbd5e774.jpg?v=1728972562","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/black-enlightenment-9781478020264","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}