Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment by Nesbitt, Nick

Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813928036)

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Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment by Nesbitt, Nick

Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment

$27.50
Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment by Nesbitt, Nick

Universal Emancipation: The Haitian Revolution and the Radical Enlightenment

$27.50
Format: Paperback
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Unlike the American and French revolutions, the Haitian Revolution was the first in a modern state to implement human rights universally and unconditionally. Combining archival research, political philosophy, and intellectual history, Nesbitt explores this fundamental event of the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth century--the invention of universal emancipation--both in the context of the Age of Enlightenment and in relation to certain key figures and trends in contemporary political philosophy. In doing so, he elucidates the theoretical implications of Haiti's revolution for both the eighteenth and the twenty-first centuries.

Author: Nick Nesbitt
ISBN-10: 0813928036
ISBN-13: 9780813928036
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2008
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2009 pg. 84
Choice 12/01/2009
By Nick Nesbitt
By Nick Nesbitt
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Nick Nesbitt is Senior Lecturer in French at the Center for Modern Thought at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He is the author of Voicing Memory: History and Subjectivity in French Caribbean Literature (Virginia).

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