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• catalog abstract ""How can we think about peoples 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 eighteenth 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 belief in the universals of human nature has fallen into disrepute; critics allege that such notions have had disastrous consequences in the twentieth century, ranging from prejudice to persecution and outright genocide." "Tzvetan Todorov, an internationally admired scholar, aims in this book to salvage the good name of the Enlightenment so that its ideas can once more inspire humane thought and action. The question he poses is of urgent relevance to the conflicts of our age: How can we avoid the dangers of a perverted universalism and scientism, as well as the pitfalls of relativism? Since the French were the ideologues of universalism and played a preeminent role in the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas in Europe, Todorov focuses on the French intellectual tradition, analyzing writers ranging from Montaigne through Tocqueville, Michelet, and Renan, to Levi-Strauss. He shows how theories of human diversity were developed in the eighteenth century, and later systematically distorted. The virtues of Enlightenment thought became vices in the hands of nineteenth-century thinkers, as a result of racism, nationalism, and the search for exoticism. Todorov calls for us to reject this legacy and to strive once again for an acceptance of human diversity, through a "critical humanism" prefigured in the writings of Rousseau and Montesquieu." "This is a work of impressive erudition and insight - a masterly synthesis that can help us think incisively about the racial and ethnic tensions confronting the world today."--Jacket.".
• catalog alternative "Nous et les autres. English".
• catalog contributor b4039158.
• catalog created "1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
• catalog description ""How can we think about peoples 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 eighteenth 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 belief in the universals of human nature has fallen into disrepute; critics allege that such notions have had disastrous consequences in the twentieth century, ranging from prejudice to persecution and outright genocide."".
• catalog description ""Tzvetan Todorov, an internationally admired scholar, aims in this book to salvage the good name of the Enlightenment so that its ideas can once more inspire humane thought and action. The question he poses is of urgent relevance to the conflicts of our age: How can we avoid the dangers of a perverted universalism and scientism, as well as the pitfalls of relativism? Since the French were the ideologues of universalism and played a preeminent role in the diffusion of Enlightenment ideas in Europe, Todorov focuses on the French intellectual tradition, analyzing writers ranging from Montaigne through Tocqueville, Michelet, and Renan, to Levi-Strauss. He shows how theories of human diversity were developed in the eighteenth century, and later systematically distorted.".
• catalog description "1. The Universal and the Relative. Ethnocentrism. Scientism. Montaigne. Evolution of Relativism. Levi-Strauss -- 2. Races. Race and Racism. Gobineau. Renan. The Paths of Racialism -- 3. Nations. Nations and Nationalism. Tocqueville. Michelet. Renan and Barres. Peguy. Consequences of Nationalism -- 4. Exoticism. On the Proper Use of Others. Chateaubriand. Loti. Segalen. Modern Travelers -- 5. Moderation. Persian Letters. The Spirit of the Laws. A Well-Tempered Humanism.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-413) and index.".
• catalog description "The virtues of Enlightenment thought became vices in the hands of nineteenth-century thinkers, as a result of racism, nationalism, and the search for exoticism. Todorov calls for us to reject this legacy and to strive once again for an acceptance of human diversity, through a "critical humanism" prefigured in the writings of Rousseau and Montesquieu." "This is a work of impressive erudition and insight - a masterly synthesis that can help us think incisively about the racial and ethnic tensions confronting the world today."--Jacket.".
• catalog extent "xvi, 424 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "On human diversity.".
• catalog identifier "0674634381".
• catalog identifier "067463439X (pbk.)".
• catalog isFormatOf "On human diversity.".
• catalog isPartOf "Convergences (Cambridge, Mass.)".
• catalog isPartOf "Convergences : inventories of the present".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "1993.".
• catalog language "eng fre".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
• catalog relation "On human diversity.".
• catalog spatial "France".
• catalog subject "305.8 20".
• catalog subject "Ethnology France History.".
• catalog subject "Ethnology Philosophy.".
• catalog subject "GN345 .T6313 1993".
• catalog subject "Nationalism.".
• catalog subject "Philosophy, French.".
• catalog subject "Racism.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. The Universal and the Relative. Ethnocentrism. Scientism. Montaigne. Evolution of Relativism. Levi-Strauss -- 2. Races. Race and Racism. Gobineau. Renan. The Paths of Racialism -- 3. Nations. Nations and Nationalism. Tocqueville. Michelet. Renan and Barres. Peguy. Consequences of Nationalism -- 4. Exoticism. On the Proper Use of Others. Chateaubriand. Loti. Segalen. Modern Travelers -- 5. Moderation. Persian Letters. The Spirit of the Laws. A Well-Tempered Humanism.".
• catalog title "Nous et les autres. English".
• catalog title "On human diversity : nationalism, racism, and exoticism in French thought / Tzvetan Todorov ; translated by Catherine Porter.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".