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Author Cook, Alexander, author

Title Representing humanity in the Age of Enlightenment / edited by Alexander Cook, Ned Curthoys, Shino Konishi
Published London : Routledge, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series The Enlightenment World
Enlightenment world.
Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. I Humanity and the Civilizing Process -- 1. Representing Humanity during the French Revolution: Volney's ̀General Assembly of Peoples' / Alexander Cook -- 2. Representing Woman: Historicizing Women in the Age of Enlightenment / Mary Spongberg -- 3. Sheer Folly and Derangement: How the Crusades Disoriented Enlightenment Historiography / John Docker -- 4. Turning Things Around Together: Enlightenment and Conversation / Jon Mee -- 5. Moses Mendelssohn and the Character of Virtue / Ned Curthoys -- pt. II Encountering Humanity -- 6. Songs from the Edge of the World: Enlightenment Perceptions of Khoikhoi and Bushmen Music / Vanessa Agnew -- 7. Joshua Reynolds and the Problem of Human Difference / Kate Fullagar -- 8. Francois Peron's Meditation on Death, Humanity and Savage Society / Shino Konishi -- 9. Neither Civilized Nor Savage: The Aborigines of Colonial Port Jackson, Through French Eyes, 1802 / Nicole Starbuck -- 10. Difficulty of becoming a Civilized Human: Orientalism, Gender and Sociability in Montesquieu's Persian Letters / Hsu-Ming Teo -- pt. III Limits of Humanity -- 11. Fictions of Human Community / Jonathan Lamb -- 12. Fairy-Tale Humanity in French Libertine Fiction of the Mid-Eighteenth Century / Peter Cryle -- 13. Philosophical Anthropology and the Sadean S̀ystem'; or, Sade and the Question of Enlightenment Humanism / Henry Martyn Lloyd
Notes Previously issued in print: London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013
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Subject Enlightenment -- Europe
Arts and society -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
Philosophical anthropology -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
Arts and society
Enlightenment
Intellectual life
Philosophical anthropology
SUBJECT Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045728
Subject Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Cook, Alexander, 1973- editor.
Curthoys, Ned, editor
Konishi, Shino, editor
ISBN 9781317320166
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