Human Nature, Cultural Diversity, and the French Enlightenment

by Henry Vyverberg

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019505864X
• ISBN13: 9780195058642
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"