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Human Nature, Cultural Diversity, and the French Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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Human Nature, Cultural Diversity, and the French Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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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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