Les Savoirs des barbares, des primitifs et des sauvages: Lectures de l'Autre aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècle (Le Dix-huitieme Siecle)

by Francoise Le Borgne, Odile Parsis-Barube (Editor), Nathalie Vuillemin (Editor)

The recognition, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that barbaric, primitive, and savage peoples possessed knowledge of their own is a testament to the ideological and epistemological changes that this collective work analyzes, using a francophone corpus composed of scholarly texts and literary and artistic works as its jumping off point.

329 pages, Paperback

Published May 2, 2018