The Age of Exploration expanded rather than ended European monster-making

Evidence

The Enlightenment’s focus on rationalism and science did the opposite of what might be expected, inspiring new legions of monsters in domestic and foreign spaces, rather than eradicating them. … All of this inspired new categories of monsters that emerged as a way for the imagination to express itself in socially acceptable ways that did not offend religious morals. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 352 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Sixteenth-century voyages expanded physical but not cultural horizons of Europeans; Foreign landscapes themselves, not their inhabitants, triggered European monster projections; Enlightenment fantasies of foreign monsters persisted well into the eighteenth century (+2 more)

Related

• Enlightenment rationalism generated new monsters instead of eradicating them (similarity 0.87)
• Enlightenment science created monsters that were not theologically constructed. (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial exploration expanded monster-making rather than dispelling it with science (similarity 0.83)
• Enlightenment fantasies of foreign monsters persisted well into the eighteenth century (similarity 0.82)
• Enlightenment science and Romanticism both renewed medieval Muslim-monster fantasies rather than ending them (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial encounters projected monsters onto new territories rather than dispelling them (similarity 0.81)
• Foreign landscapes themselves, not their inhabitants, triggered European monster projections (similarity 0.81)
• Scientific discovery and medieval revival generated new Muslim monsters (similarity 0.80)
• Sixteenth-century voyages expanded physical but not cultural horizons of Europeans (similarity 0.79)
• A theory is revolutionary by being openly antagonistic to all old thought (similarity 0.79)
• Enlightenment and Romanticism both generated new Muslim monsters via different means (similarity 0.79)
• Monotheism inadvertently created the cognitive conditions for atheism and science. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Enlightenment fantasies of foreign monsters persisted well into the eighteenth century #corroborates (0.70)
• Foreign landscapes themselves, not their inhabitants, triggered European monster projections #expands (0.60)
• Enlightenment rationalism generated new monsters instead of eradicating them #corroborates (0.60) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 352
• Cultural Studies advanced through external ruptures rather than internal evolution #corroborates (0.50)