On Human Diversity: Nationalism, Racism, and Exoticism in French Thought,

by Tzvetan Todorov

Book Overview

How can we think about people and cultures unlike our own? In the early modern period, the fact of human diversity presented Europeans with little cause for anxiety: they simply assumed the superiority of the West. During the 18th century this view was gradually abandoned, as thinkers argued that other peoples possessed reason and sensibility, and thus deserved the same respect that Westerners accorded themselves. Since that time, however, Enlightenment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067463439X
• ISBN13: 9780674634398
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"