Enlightenment and Violence: Modernity and Nation-Making

by Tadd Fernee

Book Overview

Enlightenment and Violence is a history of ideas that proposes a multi-centred and non-Eurocentric interpretation of the Enlightenment as a human heritage. This comparative study reconstructs how modernity was negotiated in different intellectual and political contexts as a national discourse within the broader heritage of Enlightenment.

The author has compared 16th and 20th century Indian history to the early modern histories...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 935388019X
• ISBN13: 9789353880194
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
• Length: 454 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"