ISBN:
9781009305341
,
9781009305327
Language:
English
Pages:
xxi, 320 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment
DDC:
306.09409/033
Keywords:
Cosmopolitanism History 18th century
;
Enlightenment
;
Intellectual life History 18th century
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Europa
;
Weltbürgertum
;
Aufklärung
Abstract:
"This timely intervention into the debate about the legacy of the Enlightenment highlights both the plurality and the continuing relevance of Enlightened cosmopolitanism to contemporary global concerns, linking cultural history with the history of ideas and politics, in a global perspective"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment -- Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism in Perspective: Diversity, Natural Law and Reason in the Work of John Locke -- The Paradox: Travel, Anthropology and the Problem Cultural Diversity in Early Modern Thought -- Diderot's Philosophical History and the History of 'Monstrous Nature' -- Geographies of Cosmopolitanism: Cartography, Natural History and Indigenous Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century -- The Imperial, Global (Cosmopolitan) Dimensions of non-elite Colonial Scribal Cultures in the Early Modern Iberian Atlantic -- Gendered Cosmopolitanism? The History of Women and the Science of Man in the Scottish Enlightenment -- Cosmopolitanism and the creation of patriotic identities in the European Enlightenment: The case of Pietro Napoli Signorelli and his Storia critica de' teatri antichi e moderni -- A Cosmopolitanism of Countervailing Powers: Resistance Against Global Domination in the Political Thought of Immanuel Kant and Quobna Ottobah Cugoano -- Cosmopolitanism and Civil War.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1017/9781009305372
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