Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment (The Enlightenment World)

Cook, Alexander

Routledge（2016/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 254 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781138662131
• DDC分類 909.7

Full Description

The Enlightenment era saw European thinkers increasingly concerned with what it meant to be human. This collection of essays traces the concept of 'humanity' through revolutionary politics, feminist biography, portraiture, explorer narratives, libertine and Orientalist fiction, the philosophy of conversation and musicology.

Contents

Introduction The Science and Politics of Humanity in the Eighteenth Century: an Introduction, Alexander Cook, Ned Curthoys, Shino Konishi; Chapter 1 Representing Humanity During the French Revolution: Volney's 'General Assembly of Peoples', Alexander Cook; Chapter 2 Representing Woman: Historicizing Women in the age of Enlightenment, Mary Spongberg; Chapter 3 Sheer Folly and Derangement: How the Crusades Disoriented Enlightenment Historiography, John Docker; Chapter 4 Turning Things Around Together: Enlightenment and Conversation, Jon Mee; Chapter 5 Moses Mendelssohn and the Character of Virtue, Ned Curthoys; Chapter 6 Songs From the Edge of the World: Enlightenment Perceptions of Khoikhoi and Bushmen Music, Vanessa Agnew; Chapter 7 Joshua Reynolds and the Problem of Human Difference, Kate Fullagar; Chapter 8 François Péron's Meditation on Death, Humanity and Savage Society, Shino Konishi; Chapter 9 Neither Civilized Nor Savage: the Aborigines of Colonial Port Jackson, Through French Eyes, 1802, Nicole Starbuck; Chapter 10 The Difficulty of Becoming a Civilized Human: Orientalism, Gender and Sociability in Montesquieu's Persian Letters, Hsu-Ming Teo; Chapter 11 Fictions of Human Community, Jonathan Lamb; Chapter 12 Fairy-Tale Humanity in French Libertine Fiction of the Mid-Eighteenth Century, Peter Cryle; Chapter 13 Philosophical Anthropology and the Sadean 'System'; or, Sade and the Question of Enlightenment Humanism, Henry Martyn Lloyd;