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The Scottish Enlightenment - Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)
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The Scottish Enlightenment - Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress (Paperback, 1st ed. 2013)
Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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The Scottish Enlightenment shaped a new conception of history as a
gradual and universal progress from savagery to civil society.
Whereas women emancipated themselves from the yoke of male-masters,
men in turn acquired polite manners and became civilized. Such a
conception, however, presents problematic questions: why were the
Americans still savage? Why was it that the Europeans only had
completed all the stages of the historic process? Could modern
societies escape the destiny of earlier empires and avoid
decadence? Was there a limit beyond which women's influence might
result in dehumanization? The Scottish Enlightenment's legacy for
modernity emerges here as a two-faced Janus, an unresolved tension
between universalism and hierarchy, progress and the limits of
progress.
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