The Scottish Enlightenment : Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress
1st ed. 2013
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Format
Paperback / Softback
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
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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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