Critical Enthusiasm
Author | : Jordana Rosenberg |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2011-04-20 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780199877379 |
ISBN-10 | : 0199877378 |
Rating | : 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Critical Enthusiasm by : Jordana Rosenberg
Download or read book Critical Enthusiasm written by Jordana Rosenberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Enthusiasm tracks the intertwined histories of religious radicalism and economic transformation in the long eighteenth century. Rosenberg situates the rhetoric of enthusiastic rapture in the context of the major institutional transformations of early modernity: the dispossession and plunder of the globe, the rise of finance, legal reform, and the administration of racialized labor.