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The French Enlightenment and Its Others: The Mandarin, the Savage, and the Invention of the Human Sciences

The French Enlightenment and Its Others: The Mandarin, the Savage, and the Invention of the Human Sciences

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Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History

French HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1349433810
ISBN13: 9781349433810
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 6 2012
Pages: 271
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
This book explores the French Enlightenment's use of cross-cultural comparisons - particularly the figures of the Chinese mandarin and American and Polynesian savage - to praise of critique aspects of European society and to draw general conclusions regarding human nature, natural law, and the rise and decline of civilizations.

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