Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition

The vital influence of Black American intellectuals on the legacy of Thomas Jefferson's ideas The lofty Enlightenment...
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Author: Hannah Spahn
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Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition by Spahn, Hannah

Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition

BD$287.93

Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition

BD$287.93
Author: Hannah Spahn
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The vital influence of Black American intellectuals on the legacy of Thomas Jefferson's ideas

The lofty Enlightenment principles articulated by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, so central to conceptions of the American founding, did not emerge fully formed as a coherent set of ideas in the eighteenth century. As Hannah Spahn argues in this important book, no group had a more profound influence on their development and reception than Black intellectuals. The rationalism and universalism most associated with Jefferson today, she shows, actually sprang from critical engagements with his thought by writers such as David Walker, Lemuel Haynes, Frederick Douglass, and W. E. B. Du Bois.

Black Reason, White Feeling illuminates the philosophical innovations that these and other Black intellectuals made to build on Jefferson's thought, shaping both Jefferson's historical image and the exalted legacy of his ideas in American culture. It is not just the first book-length history of Jefferson's philosophy in Black thought; it is also the first history of the American Enlightenment that centers the originality and decisive impact of the Black tradition.

Author: Hannah Spahn
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 05/14/2024
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d
ISBN: 9780813951188

About the Author
Hannah Spahn is Professor of American Studies at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and the author of Thomas Jefferson, Time, and History.

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