Frederick G. Whelan

Enlightenment Political Thought and Non-Western Societies (eBook, ePUB)

Sultans and Savages

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Frederick G. Whelan, a leading scholar of Enlightenment political thought, provides an illuminating and incisive interpretation of key 18th- and 19th-century European political thinkers' accounts and assessments of the societies and political institutes of the non-Western world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135838058
• Artikelnr.: 38242886

Autorenporträt

Frederick G. Whelan is professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Order and Artifice in Hume's Political Philosophy; Edmund Burke and India: Political Morality and Empire; and Hume and Machiavelli: Political Realism and Liberal Thought.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Hume and the Non-Western World 2. Scottish Theorists
French Jesuits
and the "Rude Nations" of North America 3. Oriental Despotism: Anquetil-Duperron's Response to Montesquieu 4. Burke
India
and Orientalism 5. Hegel and the Oriental World. Afterword.