The Scottish Enlightenment - Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress

Zusatztext "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) Informationen zum Autor 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 .          Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung           Inhaltsverzeichnis 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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• Authors: Sebastiani, S. Sebastiani, Silvia Sebastiani, SEBASTIANI SILVIA
• Assisted by: Jeremy Carden (Translation)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.02.2013
• EAN: 9780230114913
• ISBN: 978-0-230-11491-3
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 242 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History; Palgrave Studies in Cultural a; Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History; Palgrave Studies in Cultural a
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Geschichte, Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, B, Cultural History, History, European History, Westeuropa, Social History, Philosophy, Social & cultural history, History of Philosophy, Philosophische Traditionen und Denkschulen, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions, History, Modern, Civilization—History, Palgrave History Collection, Modern History, History of Britain and Ireland, Great Britain—History, Europe—History