Format:
1 Online-Ressource (273 pages)
ISBN:
9781137069795
Series Statement:
Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history
Uniform Title:
I limiti del progresso
Content:
Examines how the difference between monogenist and polygenistaccounts of the origin of the human race was reflected in, and helped to shape,Scottish Enlightenment accounts of society's progress through historicalstages. Reveals how concepts of race and the role of women were treated byhistorians, philosophers, and other thinkers
Note:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; A Note on Terminology; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Scottish Enlightenment as Historiographic Problem; 1 Hume versus Montesquieu: Race against Climate; 2 The Natural History of Humankind and the Natural History of Man; 3 Ignoble Savages: A Blank in the History of the Species; 4 Universal Prerogatives of Humankind; 5 Measures of Civilization: Women, Races, and Progress; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780230114913
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Scottish Enlightenment : Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress
Language:
English
Keywords:
Schottland
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Aufklärung
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Electronic books
Author information:
Carden, Jeremy
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