The Invention of Humanity : Equality and Cultural Difference in World History / Siep Stuurman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stuurman, Siep, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality--Cross-cultural studies.

Equality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

For much of history, strangers were seen as barbarians, seldom as fellow human beings. The notion of common humanity had to be invented. Drawing on global thinkers, Siep Stuurman traces ideas of equality and difference across continents and civilizations, from antiquity to present-day debates about human rights and the "clash of civilizations."

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Introduction: How Cross-Cultural Equality Became Thinkable

1. Visions of a Common Humanity

2. Religious and Philosophical Universalisms

3. History, Ethnography, and the Anthropological Turn

4. Thinking across Frontiers in Medieval Islam

5. The Atlantic Frontier and the Limits of Christian Equality

6. Global Equality and Inequality in Enlightenment Thought

7. Modern Equality and Scientific Racism in the Nineteenth Century

8. The Globalization of Equality

9. The Age of Human Rights

Epilogue: The Future of Global Equality

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-674-97750-5

OCLC:

1004870741