The French Enlightenment and Its Others: The Mandarin, the Savage, and the Invention of the Human Sciences by David Allen Harvey

The French Enlightenment and Its Others: The Mandarin, the Savage, and the Invention of the Human Sciences

David Allen Harvey

280 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history
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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 conclusio...

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