| ISBN |
9781848933736 (hardback) |
| 1848933738 (hardback) |
| 9781138662131(pbk) |
| Meeting |
Thinking the Human in the Era of Enlightenment (Conference) (2010 : Australian National University) |
| Title |
Representing humanity in the Age of Enlightenment / edited by Alexander Cook, Ned Curthoys and Shino Konishi. |
| Publisher and/or associated date/s |
New York, NY : Routledge, 2013. |
| ©2013. |
| Description |
xv, 237 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
The Enlightenment world ; number 28 |
| Bibliography |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Contents note: pt. I Humanity and the Civilizing Process -- 1.Representing Humanity during the French Revolution: Volney's `General Assembly of Peoples' / Alexander Cook -- 2.Representing Woman: Historicizing Women in the Age of Enlightenment / Mary Spongberg -- 3.Sheer Folly and Derangement: How the Crusades Disoriented Enlightenment Historiography / John Docker -- 4.Turning Things Around Together: Enlightenment and Conversation / Jon Mee -- 5.Moses Mendelssohn and the Character of Virtue / Ned Curthoys -- pt. II Encountering Humanity -- 6.Songs from the Edge of the World: Enlightenment Perceptions of Khoikhoi and Bushmen Music / Vanessa Agnew -- 7.Joshua Reynolds and the Problem of Human Difference / Kate Fullagar -- 8.Francois Peron's Meditation on Death, Humanity and Savage Society / Shino Konishi -- 9.Neither Civilized Nor Savage: The Aborigines of Colonial Port Jackson, Through French Eyes, 1802 / Nicole Starbuck -- |
| Contents note continued: 10.The Difficulty of becoming a Civilized Human: Orientalism, Gender and Sociability in Montesquieu's Persian Letters / Hsu-Ming Teo -- pt. III The Limits of Humanity -- 11.Fictions of Human Community / Jonathan Lamb -- 12.Fairy-Tale Humanity in French Libertine Fiction of the Mid-Eighteenth Century / Peter Cryle -- 13.Philosophical Anthropology and the Sadean `System'; or, Sade and the Question of Enlightenment Humanism / Henry Martyn Lloyd. |
| Summary |
"The Enlightenment era saw European thinkers increasingly concerned with what it meant to be human. This was due at least in part to the increasing awareness of human diversity brought by exploration and travel to new domains. 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. Its contributors argue that across these fields, the central philosophical conundrums of the era were reflected, and sometimes transformed, in surprising ways"--Provided by publisher. |
| Subjects |
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 18th century |
| Philosophical anthropology |
| Enlightenment -- Europe -- 18th century |
| Arts and society -- Europe -- 18th century |
| Humanity |
| Other Authors &/or Associated Persons |
Cook, Alexander, 1973 - (editor of compilation.) |
| Curthoys, Ned (editor of compilation.) |
| Konishi, Shino (editor of compilation.) |
| Series |
Enlightenment world number 28. |
| Call number |
2018.144 |
