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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... imperialism. In the context of the many philosophical and political questions raised by the emerging relationships between the European and non-European worlds, Enlightenment anti-imperialist thinkers crafted nuanced and intriguingly ...
... antiimperialist arguments, which are themselves multifaceted, to represent only ... imperialist arguments in Enlightenment political thought, I concentrate upon ... anti-imperialism rested crucially upon both an appropriation as well as a ...
... anti-imperialist political thought. I also note briefly some of the philosophical sources and legacies of Enlightenment antiimperialism, which I examine in more detail in the concluding chapter. As I will contend, a number of the ...
... anti-imperialist political philosophy emerges in the late eighteenth century among a broad array of thinkers from ... anti-imperialist political thinkers fought an uphill battle, for defences of European imperial rule were still ...
... anti-imperialist arguments, on the other hand, almost always went unheeded, not only by political, religious, and commercial authorities (as one would expect), but also by later political thinkers, including some of the most progressive ...
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