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Taylor & Francis Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment 2015 Edition by Alexander Cook
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. Table of contents :- Introduction - Alexander Cook, Ned Curthoys and Shino Konishi Part I: Humanity and the Civilizing Process 1 Representing Humanity during the French Revolution: Volney's 'General Assembly of Peoples' - Alexander Cook 2 Representing Woman: Historicizing Women in the Age of Enlightenment - Mary Spongberg 3 Sheer Folly and Derangement: How the Crusades Disoriented Enlightenment Historiography - John Docker 4 Turning Things Around Together: Enlightenment and Conversation - Jon Mee 5 Moses Mendelssohn and the Character of Virtue - Ned Curthoys Part II: Encountering Humanity 6 Songs from the Edge of the World: Enlightenment Perceptions of Khoikhoi and Bushmen Music - Vanessa Agnew 7 Joshua Reynolds and the Problem of Human Difference - Kate Fullagar 8 Francois Peron's Meditation on Death, Humanity, and Savage Society - Shino Konishi 9 Neither Civilized nor Savage: The Aborigines of Colonial Port Jackson, Through French Eyes, 1802 - Nicole Starbuck 10 The Difficulty of becoming a Civilized Human: Orientalism, Gender and Sociability in Montesquieu's Persian Letters - Hsu-Ming Teo Part III: The Limits of Humanity 11 Fictions of Human Community - Jonathan Lamb 12 Fairy-Tale Humanity in French Libertine Fiction of the Mid-Eighteenth Century - Peter Cryle 13 Philosophical Anthropology and the Sadean System; or, Sade and the Question of Enlightenment Humanism - Henry Martyn Lloyd