Savages, Romans, and Despots: Thinking about Others from Montaigne to Herder

by Robert Launay

Book Overview

From the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, Europeans struggled to understand their identity in the same way we do as individuals: by comparing themselves to others. In Savages, Romans, and Despots, Robert Launay takes us on a fascinating tour of early modern and modern history in an attempt to untangle how various depictions of "foreign" cultures and civilizations saturated debates about religion, morality, politics, and art.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022657539X
• ISBN13: 9780226575391
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"