An anthropology of the Enlightenment : moral social relations then and today / edited by Nigel Rapport and Huon Wardle.

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

xii, 192 pages ; 24 cm.

This volume is structured around some of the key themes that the Enlightenment fostered, including human nature, time, Earth and the cosmos, beauty, order, harmony and design, morals, and the query of whether wealthy nations make for healthy publics. It focuses in particular on how 'moral sentiment' offered a guiding idea in Enlightenment thought. The idea of 'moral sentiment' is central to the essays' grappling with the ethical anxieties of contemporary anthropology. The essays therfore trace historical connections and fissures, and focus in particular on Adam Smith's attempts toward an understanding of what would later be called 'modernity' - where the realism that allows us to understand individual experience appears at odds with the realism which takes on larger scale social processes of enculturation or globalization. -- Publisher

Online version: Anthropology of the enlightenment. London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

English

March 06, 2019

Includes bibliographical references and index.