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W19 – Lumières noires
Publié le 18 mars 2025
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Mis à jour le 18 mars 2025
Le séminaire Nineteenth-Century Worlds (W19) accueille des chercheuses et chercheurs spécialistes d’histoire du XIXe siècle. Il s'intéresse en particulier à la circulation des personnes, des idées, des textes et des savoirs dans le monde anglophone et au-delà, dans une perspective d'histoire globale, transnationale ou impériale.
Date(s)
le 25 mars 2025
17h30-19h
Lieu(x)
Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, salle 830, Université Paris Cité.
Le séminaire Histoire du politique et le séminaire Nineteenth-Century Worlds (W19) organisent une séance commune intitulée « Lumières noires ». Elle se tiendra le mardi 25 mars de 17h30 à 19h au bâtiment Olympe de Gouges de l’université Paris Cité (salle 830).
Hannah Spahn (Freie Universität Berlin) présentera son ouvrage Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition (University of Virginia Press, 2024). Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (Université Paris Cité) sera discutante.
Il est possible d’assister à la séance à distance. Merci de contacter Michaël Roy (michael.roy@u-paris.fr) pour obtenir le lien de connexion.
Hannah Spahn (Freie Universität Berlin) présentera son ouvrage Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition (University of Virginia Press, 2024). Marie-Jeanne Rossignol (Université Paris Cité) sera discutante.
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.
'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.
Il est possible d’assister à la séance à distance. Merci de contacter Michaël Roy (michael.roy@u-paris.fr) pour obtenir le lien de connexion.
Mis à jour le 18 mars 2025