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Inventing "Humanity" : Early-modern perspectives
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General Arts and Humanities
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/26453
Abstract
This essay addresses a crucial chapter in the development of the modern concept of humanity (mankind, humanité, Menschheit )in European culture.¹Rather than a n empirical study based on primary research, it is an attempt to sketch an analytical framework for approaching and understanding a broad array of specific historical topics and phenomena within the parameters of an encompassing theme.T he methodological assumption at its heart is trivial; our concept o f“humanity”is not an intrinsic one, but a contextually defined cultural product shaped by processes of philosophical, historical, social-anthropological, and political self-reflection, and of encounter with“others”in modern times, which all raised important and disturbing questions about the differentiae specifica of the humankind.
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Book chapter
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2020
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9783110679793
9783110679861
9783110679861
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10.1515/9783110679861-003