The French Enlightenment and Its Others : The Mandarin, the Savage, and the Invention of the Human Sciences
by
D. Harvey
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1137002530
ISBN-13
9781137002532
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 6th, 2012
Print length
271 Pages
Weight
462 grams
Dimensions
22.30 x 14.40 x 2.10 cms
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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.
This book examines the French Enlightenment''s engagement with the cultural and racial diversity of humankind, considering both the major thinkers usually associated with the Enlightenment and the travelers, officials, missionaries, explorers, and antiquarians whose writings and reports provided the raw materials for their philosophical syntheses. It argues that there was no single ''Enlightenment project'' with regard to the non-Western world; on the contrary, eighteenth-century French authors took part in contentious debates on the causes and significance of racial difference, the relative merits of civilization and primitivism, the universality of religious belief, the legitimacy of slavery and colonialism, and the meaning of (and possibility for) human progress.
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