The Scottish Enlightenment - E-book

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The Scottish Enlightenment - ENG

Race, Gender, And The Limits Of Progress

Silvia Sebastiani

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ISBN:	9781137069795
Formato:	ePub
Idioma:	Inglés
Editorial:	Springer Nature
Tema:	Historia
Subtema:	Europa general
Año de publicación:	2013-02-20

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 womens influence might result in dehumanization? The Scottish Enlightenments 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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