{"product_id":"humankind-and-humanity-in-the-philosophy-of-the-enlightenment-9781350142930","title":"Humankind and Humanity in the Philosophy of the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat makes us human beings? Is it merely some corporeal aspect, or rather some specific mental capacity, language, or some form of moral agency or social life? Is there a gendered bias within the concept of humanity? How do human beings become more human, and can we somehow cease to be human? This volume provides some answers to these fundamental questions and more by charting the increased preoccupation of the European Enlightenment with the concepts of humankind and humanity.\u003c\/b\u003e Chapters investigate the philosophical concerns of major figures across Western Europe, including Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Locke, Hume, Ferguson, Kant, Herder, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and the Comte de Buffon. As these philosophers develop important descriptive and comparative approaches to the human species and moral and social ideals of humanity, they present a view of the Enlightenment project as a particular kind of humanism that is different from its Ancient and Renaissance predecessors.  W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe “human sciences” were one of the great initiatives of the European Enlightenment, and perhaps one of its foremost achievements. In this collection, an excellent group of scholars traces out through the greatest thinkers of that age the new philosophical and empirical investigation of the biological nature and cultural history of humankind. * John Zammito, Baker College Professor Emeritus for History of Science, Technology and Innovation, Rice University, USA *\u003cbr\u003eKant famously stated that “out of the crooked timber of humanity nothing entirely straight can be made.” But this certainly hasn’t prevented Stefanie Buchenau and Ansgar Lyssy from putting together an  outstanding collection of new essays on Enlightenment views about the multiple and complex dimensions of humanity and humankind. * Robert B. Louden, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine, USA *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction, \u003ci\u003eStefanie Buchenau (University Paris 8 Saint-Denis, France) and Ansgar Lyssy (University of Leipzig, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e   1. The Presumptive Unity of Humankind in Locke's \u003ci\u003eEssay, Philippe Hamou (Sorbonne University, France)\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Human Nature in Montesquieu, \u003ci\u003eCéline Spector (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Sorbonne University, France)\u003c\/i\u003e 3.     The Image of the Human Being in the Comte de Buffon, \u003ci\u003eCatherine Wilson (York University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 4.     Hume on Humanity and the Party of Humankind, \u003ci\u003eJacqueline Taylor (University of San Francisco, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 5. Humankind and Humanity in Diderot, \u003ci\u003eAnsgar Lyssy (University of Leipzig, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e 6. 'How do Humans become Human(e)?' On Rousseau's \u003ci\u003eSecond Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eÉmile, Gabrielle Radica (University of Lille, France)\u003c\/i\u003e 7.     ‘In the human kind, the species has a progress as well as the individual’: Adam Ferguson on the progress of mankind, \u003ci\u003eNorbert Waszek \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e(Université de Paris 8 – St. Denis, France) \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eand Eveline Hauck (State University of Campinas, Brazil)\u003c\/i\u003e 8.     The Association of Science and Civilization in the Enlightenment, \u003ci\u003eStephen Gaukroger (University of Sydney, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e 9. Philoctetes at the Edge of Humanity: The German Enlightenment on Social Exclusion and the Education of Feeling, \u003ci\u003eStefanie Buchenau (University Paris 8 Saint-Denis, France)\u003c\/i\u003e 10. Enlightenment Moral Philosophy and Moral Psychology: Baumgarten, Kant, and Herder on Moral Feeling(s) and Obligation’, \u003ci\u003eNigel DeSouza\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003ci\u003e (University of Ottawa\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCanada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e)\u003c\/i\u003e 11.  Herder on Humanity, \u003ci\u003eMichael Forster (University of Chicago, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 12.  Blumenbach on the Varieties of the Human Species, \u003ci\u003eFrançois Duchesneau (University of Montreal, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 13. Can Kant’s ‘Man’ be a Woman?, \u003ci\u003eCharlotte Morel (CNRS \/ ENS Paris, France)\u003c\/i\u003e 14.  ‘Anthroponomy’. Kant on the Natural and the Rational Human Being, \u003ci\u003eGünter Zöller (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019630248279,"sku":"9781350142930","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350142930.jpg?v=1750780838","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/humankind-and-humanity-in-the-philosophy-of-the-enlightenment-9781350142930","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}