Enlightenment against EmpirePrinceton University Press, 10.01.2009 - 368 Seiten In the late eighteenth century, an array of European political thinkers attacked the very foundations of imperialism, arguing passionately that empire-building was not only unworkable, costly, and dangerous, but manifestly unjust. Enlightenment against Empire is the first book devoted to the anti-imperialist political philosophies of an age often regarded as affirming imperial ambitions. Sankar Muthu argues that thinkers such as Denis Diderot, Immanuel Kant, and Johann Gottfried Herder developed an understanding of humans as inherently cultural agents and therefore necessarily diverse. These thinkers rejected the conception of a culture-free "natural man." They held that moral judgments of superiority or inferiority could be made neither about entire peoples nor about many distinctive cultural institutions and practices. |
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... Amerindians as noble savages, categorized Amerindians as the most purely human of humans, while also according them the weakest possible (and sometimes even a nonexistent) moral status in the face of European imperial power. The idea of ...
... Amerindians were by far the most influential and dominant at the outset of the century, by which time European colonial and imperial activities were well entrenched and steadily expanding. Given its complicated influence upon the group ...
... Amerindians in these writings reflect the varied, and at times conflicting, fables about faraway lands and peoples ... Amerindians, they typically offered only fleeting moments of adulation of Amerindians' rusticity, which could then ...
Sankar Muthu. missionaries' writings that lauded Amerindians' simple nobility and reasonableness both in an effort to ... Amerindian life, although the specific manner in which such “natural” lifestyles are presented and explained differ ...
... Amerindians are savage in any pejorative sense.7 A proper understanding of the term sauvage, in his view, shows that Europeans who have altered themselves and their environments are in fact savagely artificial, rather than naturally ...
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