Enlightenment Political Thought and Non-Western Societies

Sultans and Savages

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Frederick G Whelan

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Hardback

Series:

Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

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Frederick G. Whelan, a leading scholar of Enlightenment political thought, provides an illuminating and incisive interpretation of key eighteenth and nineteenth century European political thinkers' accounts and assessments of the societies and political institutes of the non-Western world. These writers opened up a major new comparative dimension for political theory and its project both to explain and evaluate different political regimes. While the intellectual confrontation of European thinkers with alien cultures tended on the whole to confirm Westerners' sense of the superiority of their own institutions, it was also characterized -- during the Enlightenment more so than later -- by convictions regarding a common humanity and a corresponding sympathetic curiosity about different ways of life, however primitive or exotic they might appear. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of both political philosophy and thought as well as historians of this important period of history.

Author Biography:

Frederick G. Whelan is professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Order and Artifice in Hume's Political Philosophy; Edmund Burke and India: Political Morality and Empire; and Hume and Machiavelli: Political Realism and Liberal Thought.

Release date Australia

May 6th, 2009

Author

Frederick G Whelan

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

242

Series

Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought

ISBN-13

9780415999281

Product ID

3067251

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