The French Enlightenment and its Others
D. Harvey
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
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This book explores the French Enlightenment's use of cross-cultural comparisons - particularly the figures of the Chinese mandarin and American and Polynesian savage - to praise of critique aspects of European society and to draw general conclusions regarding human nature, natural law, and the rise and decline of civilizations.
- ISBN-13
- 9781137002532
- ISBN-10
- 1137002530
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 2012
- Publication date
- 2012-08-06
- Pages
- 271
- Dimensions
- 223x144x21
- Weight
- 462