D. Harvey, "The French Enlightenment and its Others: The Mandarin, the Savage, and the Invention of the Human Sciences"
2012 | ISBN-10: 1349433810, 1137002530 | 280 pages | PDF | 2 MB
2012 | ISBN-10: 1349433810, 1137002530 | 280 pages | PDF | 2 MB
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.