Alexander Cook

Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment

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Produktbeschreibung

The Enlightenment era saw European thinkers increasingly concerned with what it meant to be human. This collection of essays traces the concept of 'humanity' through revolutionary politics, feminist biography, portraiture, explorer narratives, libertine and Orientalist fiction, the philosophy of conversation and musicology.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 551g
• ISBN-13: 9781848933736
• ISBN-10: 1848933738
• Artikelnr.: 43749435

Autorenporträt

Alexander Cook is a specialist in eighteenth-century cultural history based in the School of History at the Australian National University. He is co-editor of History Australia, the journal of the Australian Historical Association. He has published in Intellectual History Review, History Workshop Journal, Criticism and Sexualities. He is currently completing a monograph on the French philosopher, historian and revolutionary Constantin-François Volney., Ned Curthoys is a research fellow in English in the School of Cultural Inquiry at the Australian National University. His publications include the co-edited Edward Said: The Legacy of a Public-Intellectual (2007) and The Legacy of Liberal Judaism: Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt's Hidden Conversation (2013)., Shino Konishi is a fellow in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at the Australian National University. She is the author of The Aboriginal Male in the Enlightenment World (2012), and the editor of Aboriginal History.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction The Science and Politics of Humanity in the Eighteenth Century: an Introduction
Alexander Cook
Ned Curthoys
Shino Konishi; Chapter 1 Representing Humanity During the French Revolution: Volney's 'General Assembly of Peoples'
Alexander Cook; Chapter 2 Representing Woman: Historicizing Women in the age of Enlightenment
Mary Spongberg; Chapter 3 Sheer Folly and Derangement: How the Crusades Disoriented Enlightenment Historiography
John Docker; Chapter 4 Turning Things Around Together: Enlightenment and Conversation
Jon Mee; Chapter 5 Moses Mendelssohn and the Character of Virtue
Ned Curthoys; Chapter 6 Songs From the Edge of the World: Enlightenment Perceptions of Khoikhoi and Bushmen Music
Vanessa Agnew; Chapter 7 Joshua Reynolds and the Problem of Human Difference
Kate Fullagar; Chapter 8 François Péron's Meditation on Death
Humanity and Savage Society
Shino Konishi; Chapter 9 Neither Civilized Nor Savage: the Aborigines of Colonial Port Jackson
Through French Eyes
1802
Nicole Starbuck; Chapter 10 The Difficulty of Becoming a Civilized Human: Orientalism
Gender and Sociability in Montesquieu's Persian Letters
Hsu-Ming Teo; Chapter 11 Fictions of Human Community
Jonathan Lamb; Chapter 12 Fairy-Tale Humanity in French Libertine Fiction of the Mid-Eighteenth Century
Peter Cryle; Chapter 13 Philosophical Anthropology and the Sadean 'System'; or
Sade and the Question of Enlightenment Humanism
Henry Martyn Lloyd;