Advanced magnetic and optical materials / edited by Ashutosh Tiwari...[et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNISA996447149803316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken, : Scrivener Publishing LLC, 2017
• ISBN: 9781119241966
• Descrizione fisica: Testo elettronico (PDF) (XXI, 532 p.)
• Collana: Advanced Material Series
• Disciplina: 621.34
• Soggetti: Materiali magnetici
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Risorsa elettronica
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

The French Enlightenment and its others : The Mandarin, the savage, and the invention of the human sciences / / D. Harvey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785800103321
• Autore: Harvey D
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-58853-6; 9786613900982; 1-137-00254-9
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2012.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 271 pages)
• Collana: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
• Disciplina: 944.034; 944/.034
• Soggetti: Cultural pluralism; Enlightenment - France; France Intellectual life 18th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Philosophy in the Seraglio -- The wisdom of the East -- The New World and the noble savage -- The last frontiers -- The varieties of man -- An indelible stain -- The apotheosis of Europe.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the French Enlightenment's use of cross-cultural comparisons - particularly the figures of the Chinese mandarin and American and Polynesian savage - to praise of critique aspects of European society and to draw general conclusions regarding human nature, natural law, and the rise and decline of civilizations.