1st Edition
Enlightenment Political Thought and Non-Western Societies Sultans and Savages
By Frederick G. Whelan
Copyright 2009
242 Pages
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Routledge
256 Pages
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Routledge
242 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction. 1. Hume and the Non-Western World 2. Scottish Theorists, French Jesuits, and the "Rude Nations" of North America 3. Oriental Despotism: Anquetil-Duperron’s Response to Montesquieu 4. Burke, India, and Orientalism 5. Hegel and the Oriental World. Afterword.
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.
