The Other Enlightenment: Race, Sexuality and Self-EstrangementChallenging widespread misunderstandings, this book shows that central to key enlightenment texts was the practice of estranging taken for granted prejudices by adopting the perspective of Others. The enlightenments key progenitors, led by Montesquieu, Voltaire and Diderot, were more empiricist than rationalist, and more critical than utopian. Moreover, each was an artful exponent of the proto postmodernist practice of asking Europeans to review what