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The Scottish Enlightenment: Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress
Auflage
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Ort / Verlag
New York: Palgrave Macmillan
Erscheinungsjahr
2013
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
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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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This is likely the most original book on the Scottish
Enlightenment published in nearly twenty years
The book offers new
insights into thinkers such as David Hume and Adam Smith as well as a host of other
contemporary intellectuals
Sebastiani provides a much-needed new
perspective on this period by examining it through the lenses of race and
gender
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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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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
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Examines the difference between monogenist and polygenist accounts
of the origin of the human race
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Examines how the difference between monogenist and polygenist
accounts of the origin of the human race was reflected in, and helped to shape,
Scottish Enlightenment accounts of society's progress through historical
stages. Reveals how concepts of race and the role of women were treated by
historians, philosophers, and other thinkers.
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