{"product_id":"scenarios-of-the-imaginary-theorizing-the-french-enlightenment-by-josue-v-harari","title":"'Scenarios of the Imaginary: Theorizing the French Enlightenment' by Josué V. Harari","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"text-token-text-primary w-full focus:outline-none has-data-writing-block:pointer-events-none [\u0026amp;:has([data-writing-block])\u0026gt;*]:pointer-events-auto R6Vx5W_threadScrollVars scroll-mb-[calc(var(--scroll-root-safe-area-inset-bottom,0px)+var(--thread-response-height))] scroll-mt-[calc(var(--header-height)+min(200px,max(70px,20svh)))]\" dir=\"auto\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text-base my-auto mx-auto pb-8 [--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-xs,calc(var(--spacing)*4))] @w-sm\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-sm,calc(var(--spacing)*6))] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-margin:var(--thread-content-margin-lg,calc(var(--spacing)*16))] px-(--thread-content-margin)\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"[--thread-content-max-width:40rem] @w-lg\/main:[--thread-content-max-width:48rem] mx-auto max-w-(--thread-content-max-width) flex-1 group\/turn-messages focus-visible:outline-hidden min-h-8 relative flex w-full min-w-0 flex-col agent-turn\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex max-w-full flex-col gap-4 grow\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\" class=\"min-h-8 text-message relative flex w-full flex-col items-end gap-2 text-start break-words whitespace-normal outline-none keyboard-focused:focus-ring [.text-message+\u0026amp;]:mt-1\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"flex w-full flex-col gap-1 empty:hidden\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"streaming-animation markdown prose dark:prose-invert wrap-break-word w-full light markdown-new-styling\"\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eJosué V. Harari presents the French Enlightenment as a volatile lab for playing with imagination, subjectivity and the production of the “real.”\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving through Rousseau, Montesquieu, Diderot and other eighteenth-century writers, Harari asks what happens when supposedly rational systems depend upon fantasies, projections and imagined bodies to hold themselves together. The exploration of the metaphysical is core to the text. Rousseau’s educational theory slips into reverie; Montesquieu’s \u003cem\u003ePersian Letters\u003c\/em\u003e turns political authority into a drama of absence, desire and projection; Enlightenment ideas of knowledge continually reveal an imaginary architecture underneath their claims to objectivity. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA distinctly late-twentieth-century work of literary theory, drawing on psychoanalysis, structuralism and post-structuralism without abandoning close reading. Dense, strange, and very good on the point where systems of knowledge begin secretly manufacturing the realities they claim merely to describe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1987. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Printed in the USA on acid-free paper. Dust jacket shows light rubbing, minor edge wear and a little creasing, particularly at the extremities. Boards and text block appear very well preserved; internally clean and unmarked, binding firm. Very good condition in very good dust jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46160000155731,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/novels_novellas_28.png?v=1788579152","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/scenarios-of-the-imaginary-theorizing-the-french-enlightenment-by-josue-v-harari","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}