The Influence of Culture on Visual Perception - Softcover

Marshall H. Segall; Donald T. Campbell; Melville J. Herskovits

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0672608251 ISBN 13: 9780672608254

Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1966

Synopsis

This book examines the French Enlightenment's engagement with the cultural and racial diversity of humankind, considering both the major thinkers usually associated with the Enlightenment and the travelers, officials, missionaries, explorers, and antiquarians whose writings and reports provided the raw materials for their philosophical syntheses. It argues that there was no single 'Enlightenment project' with regard to the non-Western world; on the contrary, eighteenth-century French authors took part in contentious debates on the causes and significance of racial difference, the relative merits of civilization and primitivism, the universality of religious belief, the legitimacy of slavery and colonialism, and the meaning of (and possibility for) human progress.

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About the Author

David Allen Harvey is a professor of History and chair of the Division of Social Sciences at New College of Florida.  A specialist in French cultural history, he is the author of Constructing Class and Nationality in Alsace, 1830-1945 (2001) and Beyond Enlightenment:  Occultism and Politics in Modern France (2005), as well as numerous articles, essays, and reviews.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Co
• Publication date: 1966
• ISBN 10: 0672608251
• ISBN 13: 9780672608254
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 268