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Barbarism and Religion: Volume 4, Barbarians, Savages and Empires

J G A Pocock author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:21st Feb '08

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The fourth volume of Barbarism and Religion, first published in 2005, which focuses on eighteenth-century Europe.

In the fourth volume of Barbarism and Religion - Edward Gibbon's own phrase, Pocock argues that barbarism was central to the history of western historiography, to the history of the Enlightenment, and to Edward Gibbon himself. This book was first published in 2005.'Barbarism and Religion' - Edward Gibbon's own phrase - is the title of a sequence of works by John Pocock designed to situate Gibbon, and his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a series of contexts in the history of eighteenth-century Europe. In the fourth volume in the sequence, first published in 2005, Pocock argues that barbarism was central to the history of western historiography, to the history of the Enlightenment, and to Edward Gibbon himself. As a concept it was deeply problematic to Enlightened historians seeking to understand their own civilised societies in the light of exposure to newly discovered civilisations which were, until then, beyond the reach of history itself.

'This book's challenging combination of Gibbonian study with history, historiography and philosophy carries Prof. Pocock's work onto a new level and one that will deepen the reader's understanding of all four.' Contemporary Review

ISBN: 9780521721011

Dimensions: 228mm x 151mm x 22mm

Weight: 622g

388 pages