Format:
Online-Ressource (VIII, 271 S.)
Edition:
1. ed.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011
ISBN:
1283588536
,
9781283588539
Series Statement:
Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history
Content:
This book explores the French Enlightenment's use of cross-cultural comparisons - particularly the figures of the Chinese mandarin and American and Polynesian savage - to praise of critique aspects of European society and to draw general conclusions regarding human nature, natural law, and the rise and decline of civilizations. David Harvey is an associate professor of History at the New College of Florida.
Content:
This book explores the French Enlightenment's use of cross-cultural comparisons - particularly the figures of the Chinese mandarin and American and Polynesian savage - to praise of critique aspects of European society and to draw general conclusions regarding human nature, natural law, and the rise and decline of civilizations
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Philosophy in the Seraglio: Orientalism and the Enlightenment; 2 The Wisdom of the East: Enlightenment Perspectives on China; 3 The New World and the Noble Savage; 4 The Last Frontiers; 5 The Varieties of Man: Racial Theory between Climate and Heredity; 6 "An Indelible Stain": Slavery and the Colonial Enlightenment; 7 The Apotheosis of Europe; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137002549
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137002532
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1283586576
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781137002532
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The French Enlightenment and its Others The Mandarin, the Savage, and the Invention of the Human Sciences
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
URL:
http://lib.myilibrary.com/ProductDetail.aspx?id=390098
