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On Human Diversity : Nationalism, Racism, and Exoticism in French Thought (Convergences: Inventories of the Present)
On Human Diversity Nationalism Racism and Exoticism in French Thought - Convergences: Inventories of the Present
Author: Tzvetan Todorov
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 sensibi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674634381
ISBN-10: 0674634381
Publication Date: 3/1993
Pages: 448
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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