Arvind Rajagopal

This Is Enlightenment

The Strange Light of Postcolonial Enlightenment: Mediatic Form and Publicity in India

University of Chicago Press | 2010
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226761466-012
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This Is Enlightenment
This Is Enlightenment
Chapters in this book (28)
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
This Is Enlightenment: An Invitation in the Form of an Argument
Enlightening Mediation
Where Were the Media before the Media? Mediating the World at the Time of Condillac and Linnaeus
Mediation and the Division of Labor
Transmitting Liberty: The Boston Committee of Correspondence’s Revolutionary Experiments in Enlightenment Mediation
Modes and Codes: Samuel F.B. Morse and the Question of Electronic Writing
Mediating Information, 1450– 1800
Mediated Enlightenment: The System of the World
Romanticism, Enlightenment, and Mediation: The Case of the Inner Stranger
The Present of Enlightenment: Temporality and Mediation in Kant, Foucault, and Jean Paul
The Strange Light of Postcolonial Enlightenment: Mediatic Form and Publicity in India
Mediating Media Past and Present: Toward a Genealogy of “Print Culture” and “Oral Tradition”
Mediating Antiquarians in Britain, 1760– 1830: The Invention of Oral Tradition, or, Close Reading before Coleridge
Mediating le philosophe: Diderot’s Strategic Self- Representations
Novel Knowledge: Judgment, Experience, Experiment
The Piratical Enlightenment
Financing Enlightenment, Part One: Money Matters
Financing Enlightenment, Part Two: Extraordinary Expenditure
“The Horrifying Ties, from which the Public Order Originates”: The Police in Schiller and Mercier
The Preacher’s Footing
Mediation as Primal Word: The Arts, the Sciences, and the Origins of the Aesthetic
Notes
References
Contributors
Index