Matthew W. Binney

The Cosmopolitan Evolution

Travel, Travel Narratives, and the Revolution of the Eighteenth-Century European Consciousness

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Produktbeschreibung

Working from the concept of cosmopolitanism and incorporating textual evidence from philosophy, drama of the English Renaissance, seventeenth-century travel narratives, and eighteenth-century literature, The Cosmopolitan Evolution, explores the interactions between the European consciousness and the foreign. The book also chronicles the development of cosmopolitanism from a form of representative universalism, which seeks to enfold all humans under on ideal, towards complex universalism, which seeks to account for alternate and particular views.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9780761834144
• ISBN-10: 0761834141
• Artikelnr.: 22283618

Autorenporträt

Matthew W. Binney, a visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas, received his Ph.D. in Eighteenth-Century Literature from Auburn University. He has contributed to a number of scholarly journals and is a member of the American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction Chapter 3 Chapter 1. The Classical
and Medieval Mind: The Predominance of Universalism without Complexity
Chapter 4 Excursus I. Systems Theory, Consciousness, and Virtue Chapter 5
Chapter 2. The Renaissance Consciousness: The Development of Internal
Complexity Through Boundaries and Self-Reference Chapter 6 Chapter 3.
English Renaissance Drama and Self-Reference Chapter 7 Chapter 4.
Seventeenth-Century Travel Narratives: Universalism and the Travel
Consciousness Chapter 8 Chapter 5. Seventeenth-Century Travel Narratives:
National Interests and Self-Reflection Chapter 9 Excursus II. Oroonoko,
Self-Reference, and the Internalization of the Foreign Chapter 10 Chapter
6. The Eighteenth-Century Consciousness and the Ascendancy of Cosmopolitan
Particularism: Self-Regulation and Self-Governance Chapter 11 Chapter 7.
The Eighteenth-Century Consciousness and Complex Universalism: Daniel
Defoe, Self-Governance, and Sympathy Chapter 12 Conclusion Chapter 13 Notes
Chapter 14 Bibliography Chapter 15 Index