Representing Humanity In The Age Of Enlightenment
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Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment
Author | : Alexander Cook,Ned Curthoys,Shino Konishi |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Arts and society |
ISBN | : OCLC:854618998 |
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Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment
Author | : Alexander Cook |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317320173 |
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The Enlightenment era saw European thinkers increasingly concerned with what it meant to be human. 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.
Humankind and Humanity in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment
Author | : Stefanie Buchenau,Ansgar Lyssy |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 2023-08-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781350142954 |
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What makes us human beings? Is it merely some corporeal aspect, or rather some specific mental capacity, language, or some form of moral agency or social life? Is there a gendered bias within the concept of humanity? How do human beings become more human, and can we somehow cease to be human? This volume provides some answers to these fundamental questions and more by charting the increased preoccupation of the European Enlightenment with the concepts of humankind and humanity. Chapters investigate the philosophical concerns of major figures across Western Europe, including Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Locke, Hume, Ferguson, Kant, Herder, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and the Comte de Buffon. As these philosophers develop important descriptive and comparative approaches to the human species and moral and social ideals of humanity, they present a view of the Enlightenment project as a particular kind of humanism that is different from its Ancient and Renaissance predecessors. With contributions from a team of internationally recognized scholars, including Stephen Gaukroger, Michael Forster, Céline Spector, Jacqueline Taylor, and Günter Zöller, this book offers a novel interpretation of the Enlightenment that is both clear in focus and impressive in scope.
In Search of Humanity
Author | : Alfred Cobban |
Publsiher | : Pickle Partners Publishing |
Total Pages | : 455 |
Release | : 2018-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781789124620 |
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First published in 1960, In Search of Humanity: The Role of the Enlightenment in Modern History represents an analysis of the decline of moral and political standards in the 20th century in light of their development during the 17th and 18th centuries. Professor Alfred Cobban not only provides a thorough and comprehensible overview of the political ideas of the Enlightenment thinkers, but also illustrates how these ideas are relevant for our own age. Along with discussing the general tenets of the Enlightenment, Prof. Cobban also attempts to demystify some of the myths surrounding the impact that the Enlightenment had on the French Revolution, and political philosophy thereafter. Professor Cobban gives a clear outline of the profoundly classical liberal nature of the Enlightenment, which is the basis of the “humanity” he seeks to re-discover, treasure and cherish. Anyone intending to defend classical liberalism in our time should take heed of the ideas espoused in this book.
Fiction Without Humanity
Author | : Lynn Festa |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2019-06-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780812251319 |
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Although the Enlightenment is often associated with the emergence of human rights and humanitarian sensibility, "humanity" is an elusive category in the literary, philosophical, scientific, and political writings of the period. Fiction Without Humanity offers a literary history of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century efforts to define the human. Focusing on the shifting terms in which human difference from animals, things, and machines was expressed, Lynn Festa argues that writers and artists treated humanity as an indefinite class, which needed to be called into being through literature and the arts. Drawing on an array of literary, scientific, artistic, and philosophical devices— the riddle, the fable, the microscope, the novel, and trompe l'oeil and still-life painting— Fiction Without Humanity focuses on experiments with the perspectives of nonhuman creatures and inanimate things. Rather than deriving species membership from sympathetic identification or likeness to a fixed template, early Enlightenment writers and artists grounded humanity in the enactment of capacities (reason, speech, educability) that distinguish humans from other creatures, generating a performative model of humanity capacious enough to accommodate broader claims to human rights. In addressing genres typically excluded from canonical literary histories, Fiction Without Humanity offers an alternative account of the rise of the novel, showing how these early experiments with nonhuman perspectives helped generate novelistic techniques for the representation of consciousness. By placing the novel in a genealogy that embraces paintings, riddles, scientific plates, and fables, Festa shows realism to issue less from mimetic exactitude than from the tailoring of the represented world to a distinctively human point of view.
The Poetic Enlightenment
Author | : Rowan Boyson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317319658 |
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The essays in this edited collection look at the role of poetry in the development of Enlightenment ideas. As scholarly disciplines began to emerge – anthropology, linguistics, psychology – the ancient art of poetry was invoked to create new ways of defining and expanding this philosophy of human science.
The Enlightenment and Its Effects on Modern Society
Author | : Milan Zafirovski |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2010-12-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781441973870 |
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The Enlightenment of the late 17th and 18th century is characterized by an emphasis on reason and empiricism . As a major shaping philosophy of Western culture, it had a historical impact on the religious, cultural, academic, and social institutions of 18th century Europe. In this compelling volume, the author explores the lasting impact of Enlightenment thinking on modern Western societies and other democracies. With an interdisciplinary, comparative-historical approach this volume explores the impact of Enlightenment ideals such as liberty, equality, and social justice on current social institutions. Combining sociological theory with concrete examples, the author provides a unique framework for understanding modern cultural development, including a picture of how it would look without this Enlightenment basis. This work provides a multi-faceted approach, including: an historical overview, analysis of the Enlightenment’s influence on modern democratic societies, modern culture, political science, civil society and the economy, as well as exploring the counter-Enlightenment, Post-Enlightenment, and Neo-Enlightenment philosophies.
William Cobbett Romanticism and the Enlightenment
Author | : James Grande |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2015-10-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317317074 |
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Cobbett was one of the greatest journalists of his day. Following a career in the British army he began writing as the loyalist 'Peter Porcupine' in the United States, defending all things British against the French Revolution and its supporters. This is the first collection on Cobbett and contains essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines.