Enlightenment science and Romanticism both renewed medieval Muslim-monster fantasies rather than ending them

Evidence

The trend toward the exotic was fueled by the growth of Romanticism, an artistic and philosophical movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The image of an exotic Orient associated with “sensuality, promise, terror, sublimity, idyllic pleasure, [and] intense energy” can be found in the works of musicians, painters, novelists, and philosophers from Mozart to Byron, Hugo, and Goethe. To be fair, the Romantics did not only look to the East for the exotic: they also looked to their own past, drawing from Gothic tales and stories of European barbarians. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 89 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Enlightenment thinkers retained older anti-Muslim stereotypes — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 161; History invents phantasms — fantasies attached to Muslim bodies — that remain powerful; Enlightenment science created monsters that were not theologically constructed. (+10 more)

Related

• Enlightenment and Romanticism both generated new Muslim monsters via different means (similarity 0.93)
• Romanticism projected an exotic Orientalist fantasy rather than accurate knowledge (similarity 0.86)
• Enlightenment rationalism generated new monsters instead of eradicating them (similarity 0.86)
• Enlightenment thinkers retained older anti-Muslim stereotypes (similarity 0.85)
• Orientalism’s ontological rigidity makes its fantasies nearly impossible to dismantle (similarity 0.84)
• Enlightenment science created monsters that were not theologically constructed. (similarity 0.84)
• Modern Muslim monsters rest on medieval fantasies (similarity 0.84)
• Orientalist science masks an egoistic will to power (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalism ignores factual accuracy in favor of exotic horror (similarity 0.83)
• Enlightenment critique domesticated monsters into pathological human degenerates (similarity 0.82)
• The Age of Exploration expanded rather than ended European monster-making (similarity 0.81)
• Romantic adventurers challenged the institutional authority of professional Orientalists. (similarity 0.81)
• Romantic metaphysics originated in magic and serves to veil reality (similarity 0.81)
• Orientalism sustains Muslim monster imagery without originating it (similarity 0.81)
• Eighteenth-century France romanticized exotic others as noble (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Enlightenment and Romanticism both generated new Muslim monsters via different means #corroborates (0.90)
• Enlightenment fantasies of foreign monsters persisted well into the eighteenth century #corroborates (0.80)
• Romanticism projected an exotic Orientalist fantasy rather than accurate knowledge #exemplifies (0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 89
• Medieval Muslim-monster imagery persists today through Gothic horror and Orientalism #expands (0.60)
• Enlightenment philosophers wavered between rational and superstitious treatments of Muhammad #corroborates (0.60) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 360
• Enlightenment critique domesticated monsters into pathological human degenerates #complicates (0.50)
• The invented rape-of-the-Virgin-Mary fantasy persists in modern anti-Muslim discourse #exemplifies (0.50)
• Romantics challenged mechanical worldview by celebrating imagination #expands (0.50) — Richard A. Posner, What Has Pragmatism to Offer Law?, 23
• Orientalism’s ontological rigidity makes its fantasies nearly impossible to dismantle #expands (0.50)