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by Henry Vyverberg

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In this work, Henry Vyverberg traces the evolution and consequences of a crucial idea in French Enlightenment thought--the idea of human nature. Human nature was commonly seen as a broadly universal, unchanging entity, though perhaps modifiable by geographical, social, and historical factors. Enlightenment empiricism suggested a degree of cultural diversity that has often been underestimated in studies of the age. Evidence here is drawn from Diderot's celebrated Encyclopedia and from a vast range of writing by such Enlightenment notables as Voltaire, Rousseau, and d'Holbach. Vyverberg explains not only the age's undoubted fascination with uniformity in human nature, but also its acknowledgment of significant limitations on that uniformity. He shows that although the Enlightenment's historical sense was often blinkered by its notions of a uniform human nature, there were also cracks in this concept that developed during the Enlightenment itself.

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  • Title Human Nature, Cultural Diversity, and the French Enlightenment
  • Author Henry Vyverberg
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, NY
  • Publication date 1989-08-17
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780195058642 / 019505864X
  • Weight 1.08 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.82 x 5.7 x 0.82 in (22.40 x 14.48 x 2.08 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: French
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Enlightenment - France, Philosophical anthropology - History - 18th
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 89002971
  • Dewey Decimal Code 194

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New York : Oxford University Press, 1989. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xii, 223 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index. Contents; Contents; Introduction; 1 From Nature to Human Nature; 2 The Uniformity of Human Nature; 3 The Diversity of Human Beings; 4 Physical and Moral Influences on National Character; 5 Understanding Cultural Diversity; 6 A Cultural Miscellany; 7 The Mildly Exotic East; 8 Historical Diversity; 9 The Case of Ancient Greece; 10 The Case of the Middle Ages; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. Subjects; 1700-1799. Enlightenment France. Philosophical anthropology History 18th century. Ethnopsychology France History 18th century. Enlightenment. Ethnopsychology. Intellectual life. Philosophical anthropology.
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