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Savages, Romans, and despots : thinking about others from Montaigne to Herder / Robert Launay.
LIBRA BD460.O74 L38 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Launay, Robert, 1949- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Other (Philosophy).
- Other minds (Theory of knowledge).
- Anthropology--Philosophy.
- Anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 258 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Maps of mankind
- The world turned upside down: Mandeville
- Between two saddles: Montaigne
- Climactic harmonies: Bodin
- St. Confucius: the Jesuits in China
- Distant relations: the Jesuits in New France
- Ancients, moderns, and others: Fontenelle and Temple
- The specter of despotism: Montesquieu and Voltaire
- Savage critics: Lahontan, Rousseau, and Diderot
- From savagery to decadence: Ferguson, Millar, and Gibbon
- Cultural critique: Herder
- "Others" are good to think.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226575254
- 022657525X
- 9780226575391
- 022657539X
- OCLC:
- 1027732430
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