The French Enlightenment and its others

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. Following such comparisons across a variety of contexts over the course of the eighteenth century, David Harvey concludes that by the eve of the French Revolution, thinkers had mobilized cross-cultural comparisons in order to articulate a vision of Europe's identity and place in the world, defining it both as civilized and also as dynamic and progressive.

שנה

2012

שפה

English

סדרה

Palgrave studies in cultural and intellectual history

הוצאה

Palgrave Macmillan

מהדורות

1

עמודים

271

ISBN

9781137002532

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