Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment

Herausgeber: Rubiés, Joan-Pau; Safier, Neil

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 690g
• ISBN-13: 9781009305341
• ISBN-10: 1009305344
• Artikelnr.: 66996479

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: cosmopolitanism and the enlightenment Joan-Pau Rubiés and
Neil Safier; 1. Enlightenment cosmopolitanism in perspective: diversity,
natural law and reason in the work of John Locke Daniel Carey; 2. The
Cosmopolitan paradox: travel, anthropology and the problem cultural
diversity in early modern thought Joan-Pau Rubiés; 3. Diderot's
philosophical history and the history of 'monstrous nature' Girolamo
Imbruglia; 4. Geographies of cosmopolitanism: cartography, natural history
and indigenous knowledge in the long eighteenth century Neil Safier; 5. The
imperial, global (cosmopolitan) dimensions of non-elite colonial scribal
cultures in the early modern Iberian Atlantic Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra; 6.
Gendered Cosmopolitanism? The history of women and the science of man in
the Scottish enlightenment Silvia Sebastiani; 7. 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 Melissa Calaresu; 8. A Cosmopolitanism of countervailing powers:
resistance against global domination in the political thought of Immanuel
Kant and Quobna Ottobah Cugoano Sankar Muthu; 9. Cosmopolitanism and civil
war David Armitage; Afterword: cosmopolitanism and its discontents Anthony
Pagden.