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European Encounters with the New World - From Renaissance to Romanticism (Paperback, Rev Ed)
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European Encounters with the New World - From Renaissance to Romanticism (Paperback, Rev Ed)
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For more than three centuries after Columbus's voyages to America,
Europeans pondered how the Old World's encounters with the New
World affected European sensibilities and intellectual horizons. In
this book Anthony Pagden examines some of the varied ways in which
Europeans interpreted these encounters with America. Pagden
explores the strategies used by Columbus and the early chroniclers
of America to describe a continent and its inhabitants so deeply
unfamiliar to Europeans that they seemed hardly to be real. He
looks at how, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,
Europeans reacted in different ways to these descriptions. Some,
like the Prussian explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt,
declared that scientific understanding before the oceanic voyages
had advanced by slow steps and that the encounter with America had
invigorated Europeans to make new discoveries in many directions at
once. Other Europeans, particularly Enlightenment and Romantic
figures, argued fiercely against the whole process of colonization
and acculturation in the Americas. French philosophe Denis Diderot,
for example, felt that the European experience of America had led
to an increased familiarity with all that was potentially strange
and unusual-the creation of a global village-and that this had
resulted in a steady decline in that sense of wonder that was the
principal incentive for all scientific inquiry. The German
philosopher Johann Gottfried Herder proposed that all cultures must
recognize their essential alienness and that the single world
culture that colonization and commerce had helped to create must be
allowed to revert to its natural condition of plurality. In an
exploration of these and other responses, Pagden throws a vivid new
light on the intellectual consequences of Europe's encounter with
the Americas.
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