Cosmopolitanism and the enlightenment
Offers a timely intervention into the debate about the Enlightenment and its legacy, highlighting both its plurality and continuing relevance.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge New York Port Melbourne New Delhi Singapore : Cambridge University Press,
2023
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| Schlagworte: | Cosmopolitanism Enlightenment Intellectual life Electronic books |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (344 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Offers a timely intervention into the debate about the Enlightenment and its legacy, highlighting both its plurality and continuing relevance. Introduction: Cosmopolitanism and the Enlightenment -- Whose Cosmopolitanism? -- Whose Enlightenment? -- Reassessing the European Trajectory -- Practical Cosmopolitanism in Europe and Beyond -- Cosmopolitanism from the Margins -- Cosmopolitanism and Politics -- 1 Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism in Perspective: Diversity, Natural Law, and Reason in the Work of John Locke -- Natural Law, Consensus, and the Challenge of Diversity -- Locke's Politics -- The Force of Reason -- 2 The Cosmopolitan Paradox: Travel, Anthropology, and the Problem of Cultural Diversity in Early Modern Thought -- The Longue-Durée History of Enlightened Cosmopolitanism -- The Paradoxes of Early Modern Cosmopolitanism -- The Distinctiveness of the Early Modern European Trajectory -- The Cultural Contents of Moral Cosmopolitanism -- 3 Diderot's Conjectural History and the History of ''Monstrous Nature'' -- D'Alembert and Rousseau -- The Young Diderot -- After the Encyclopédie -- A Science of Morals -- History of European Societies -- Wickedness: The Conquerors -- Superstition: The Missionaries -- Greed: The Merchants -- Despotism -- Cosmopolitanism and Politics. How to Think a Society which Is Not Monstrous -- 4 Geographies of Cosmopolitanism: Cartography, Natural History, and the Spaces of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century -- A Cosmographer Who Never Left Home: The Cartographic Practices of Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville -- Entering and Imagining the Pacific -- Humboldtian Cosmography and the Boundaries of Brazil -- Conclusion: From European to Indigenous Cosmopolitanisms -- 5 The Imperial, Global (Cosmopolitan) Dimensions of Nonelite Colonial Scribal Cultures in the Early Modern Iberian Atlantic. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (344 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781009305365 1009305360 9781009305341 1009305344 9781009305327 1009305328 |