Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism

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This book aims to add to existing knowledge of how eighteenth-century ideas of human nature and rights, of universal progress, peace, and wealth were embodied in texts and other artefacts, and how they served as the foundation for future discursive mobilisations of Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents List of Contributors Foreword Part I: (Trans) National Perspectives 1. Germany: The Straggler as Leader Notes to Chapter 1 2. Cosmopolitanism, Patriotism, and Nationalism in the German and Austrian Enlightenment Notes to Chapter 2 3. Feeling across Borders: The Europeanization of Russian Nobility through Emotional Patterns Notes to Chapter 3 Part II: Agents of Cosmopolitanism 4. Literary Cosmopolitanism and the Geography of Genius in Eighteenth-Century France Abbé Dubos Madame de Staël Notes to Chapter 4 5. Spinoza’s Impact on Europe Introduction The Context of Spinoza’s Ideas Spinoza’s Religious Ideas Spinoza’s Thinking on God The Consequences of Spinoza’s Thinking for European Ideas on Belief Spinoza’s Posthumous Reputation The Consequences of Spinoza’s Thinking on God for Eighteenth-Century Ideas Spinoza’s Conception of God Differs from Eighteenth-Century Materialism Newtonianism as Counter-Reaction to Materialism a) In England and France b) In Italy, Spain, and Portugal Conclusion Notes to Chapter 5 6. Cosmopolitan Book Publishing: The Case of the Encyclopédie The Encyclopédie in France The Encyclopédie in Switzerland The Encyclopédie in Italy The Encyclopédie in England The Encyclopédie in Germany The Encyclopédie in Russia Notes to Chapter 6 Part III: Afterlives 7. Subjectivity and Cosmopolitan Enlightenment: Music and Don Giovanni Notes to Chapter 7 8. Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall and Rise Again of the Concept of Progress in Anglo-American Anthropology Progress: The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall... The Armchair Hercules: Unilinear Evolutionary Anthropology Armchair Hercules Unbound: Historical Particularism Relativistic universalism Neo-Evolutionist Anthropology Every Hercules should Go Home: Post Modern Anthropology ...And Rise, Again Conclusion Notes to Chapter 8 9. Cosmopolitanism in the Discursive Landscape of Modernity: Two Enlightenment Articulations Cosmopolitanism and the Recalibration of the Polis Domains of Articulation Cosmopolitanism as the Foundation for a New World Order: Ideas of Eternal Peace ‘World Literature’ and the History of Comparative Literature as a Discipline Notes to Chapter 9 10. Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism: Western or Universal? Introduction Cosmopolitanism and Eurocentrism Understanding Kant’s Cosmopolitanism Cosmopolitanism and the Critique of European Power European Power and the Critique of Kant’s Cosmopolitanism Conclusion: Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism and Social Theory Notes to Chapter 10 Index