CONTENTS

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-ix

Dedication

pp x-x

List of Contributors

pp xi-xiv

List of Figures

pp xv-xvi

The Science and Politics of Humanity in the Eighteenth Century: An Introduction

pp 1-14

Part I - Humanity and the Civilizing Process

1 - Representing Humanity during the French Revolution: Volney's ‘General Assembly of Peoples’

pp 15-26

2 - Representing Woman: Historicizing Women in the Age of Enlightenment

pp 27-40

3 - Sheer Folly and Derangement: How the Crusades Disoriented Enlightenment Historiography

pp 41-52

4 - Turning Things Around Together: Enlightenment and Conversation

pp 53-64

5 - Moses Mendelssohn and the Character of Virtue

pp 65-78

Part II - Encountering Humanity

6 - Songs from the Edge of the World: Enlightenment Perceptions of Khoikhoi and Bushmen Music

pp 79-94

7 - Joshua Reynolds and the Problem of Human Difference

pp 95-108

8 - François Péron's Meditation on Death, Humanity and Savage Society

pp 109-122

9 - Neither Civilized Nor Savage: The Aborigines of Colonial Port Jackson, Through French Eyes, 1802

pp 123-134

10 - The Difficulty of becoming a Civilized Human: Orientalism, Gender and Sociability in Montesquieu's Persian Letters

pp 135-148

Part III - The Limits of Humanity

11 - Fictions of Human Community

pp 149-160

12 - Fairy-Tale Humanity in French Libertine Fiction of the Mid-Eighteenth Century

pp 161-172

13 - Philosophical Anthropology and the Sadean ‘System’ or, Sade and the Question of Enlightenment Humanism

pp 173-184

Notes

pp 185-224

Index

pp 225-237