The Scottish Enlightenment : Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress

Name: The Scottish Enlightenment
Brand: Palgrave Macmillan
SKU: 9781349296224
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ISBN: 9781349296224

1st ed. 2013

by Silvia Sebastiani

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History

ISBN-10 1349296228

ISBN-13 9781349296224

Edition 1st ed. 2013

Publisher Palgrave Macmillan

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 4th, 2015

Print length 269 Pages

Weight 392 grams

Dimensions 15.10 x 22.80 x 2.00 cms

Product Classification: Western Europe European history Social & cultural history Philosophy History of ideas History of ideas European history Social and cultural history Philosophy

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The Scottish Enlightenment shaped a new conception of history as a gradual and universal progress from savagery to civil society. The Scottish Enlightenment's legacy for modernity emerges here as a two-faced Janus, an unresolved tension between universalism and hierarchy, progress and the limits of progress.

The Scottish Enlightenment shaped a new conception of history as a gradual and universal progress from savagery to civil society. Whereas women emancipated themselves from the yoke of male-masters, men in turn acquired polite manners and became civilized. Such a conception, however, presents problematic questions: why were the Americans still savage? Why was it that the Europeans only had completed all the stages of the historic process? Could modern societies escape the destiny of earlier empires and avoid decadence? Was there a limit beyond which women''s influence might result in dehumanization? The Scottish Enlightenment''s legacy for modernity emerges here as a two-faced Janus, an unresolved tension between universalism and hierarchy, progress and the limits of progress.

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