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The Scottish Enlightenment

Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress

Silvia Sebastiani

Palgrave Macmillan
Collection: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
Publication date : 2013-02-20

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The Scottish Enlightenment shaped a new conception of history as a gradual and universal progress from savagery to civil society. Whereas women emancipated themselves from the yoke of male-masters, men in turn acquired polite manners and became civilized. Such a conception, however, presents problematic questions: why were the Americans still savage? Why was it that the Europeans only had completed all the stages of the historic process? Could modern societies escape the destiny of earlier empires and avoid decadence? Was there a limit beyond which women's influence might result in dehumanization? The Scottish Enlightenment's legacy for modernity emerges here as a two-faced Janus, an unresolved tension between universalism and hierarchy, progress and the limits of progress.

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Author

Silvia Sebastiani

Imprint

Palgrave Macmillan

Collection

Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History

Publication date

2013-02-20

Pages

269 pages

Print ISBN

9781349296224

Language

English

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9781137069795

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£114.00

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Print count 26

File size 4280 Ko

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