The invention of humanity : equality and cultural difference in world history /
The Invention of Humanity offers a global intellectual history of thinking about common humanity, cross-cultural equality, and cultural difference. The time span runs from Antiquity to the present. The book traces the history of common humanity, cross-cultural equality and self-critical inversions o...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: How cross-cultural equality became thinkable
- Visions of a common humanity
- Religious and philosophical universalisms
- History, ethnography, and the anthropological turn
- Thinking across frontiers in medieval Islam
- The Atlantic frontier and the limits of Christian equality
- Global equality and inequality in Enlightenment thought
- Modern equality and scientific racism in the nineteenth century
- The globalization of equality
- The age of human rights
- Epilogue: The future of global equality.