The invention of humanity : equality and cultural difference in world history / Siep Stuurman.
The invention of humanity : equality and cultural difference in world history / Siep Stuurman.
The invention of humanity : equality and cultural difference in world history / Siep Stuurman.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2017]
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G 2017/1240
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English
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Physical content
665 pages ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: How cross-cultural equality became thinkable -- Visions of a common humanity -- Religious and philosophical universalisms -- History, ethnography, and the anthropological turn -- Thinking across frontiers in medieval Islam -- The Atlantic frontier and the limits of Christian equality -...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2017]
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
The Invention of Humanity offers a global intellectual history of thinking about common humanity, cross-cultural equality, and cultural difference. The time span runs from Antiquity to the present. The book traces the history of common humanity, cross-cultural equality and self-critical inversions of the cross-cultural gaze, from Homer and Confuciu...
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The invention of humanity : equality and cultural difference in world history / Siep Stuurman.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2017/1240
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74VKVzRZV0wd
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ISBN
0674971965 hardcover
9780674971967 hardcover
DDC
305
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991024079700802626
