Scottish Enlightenment

Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress

AvSilvia Sebastiani

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-12-04
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:392 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
Antal sidor:269
Upplaga:15001
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781349296224

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Silvia Sebastiani is Maître de Conférences (Associate Professor) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Socials in Paris, France, where she teaches seminars on the experiences and ideologies of race in the early modern period and on Enlightenment historiography, and coordinate the group of research mondes britannique.

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"The detailed and nuanced account of the disputes about human diversity, race, and gender at the heart of the stadial theories of the Scottish Enlightenment makes a substantive contribution to the fields of Enlightenment studies, critical race theory, gender studies, and the history of ideas. Scholars in these disciplines as well as interdisciplinary scholars who share an interest in these themes will find in this work a wealth of resources." (Edinburgh University Press, euppublishing.com, Vol. 14 (2), June, 2016)

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Introduction: The Scottish Enlightenment as Historiographic Problem 1. Hume versus Montesquieu: Race Against Climate 2. The Natural History of Humankind and the Natural History of Man 3. Ignoble Savages: a Blank in the History of the Species 4. Universal Prerogatives of Humankind 5. Measures of Civilization: Women, Races, and Progress Conclusion