Talk by Dr. Alexander Statman: “Global Enlightenment: France, China, and the Idea of Progress”
HSSB 4020 University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, United StatesOver the course of the Enlightenment, Europe claimed a monopoly on progress for itself alone. In the eighteenth century, other places had appeared as familiar and comparable. By the early nineteenth century, they were cast as inscrutable and incommensurable. What caused this fundamental transformation in Europe’s understanding of itself? In this talk, I aim to […]