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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... argues, Those people [Amerindians] are wild [sauvage], just as we call wild [sauvage] the fruits that Nature has produced by herself and in her normal course; whereas really it is those that we have changed artificially and led astray ...
... argue for their forced enslavement or civilization under imperial rule. In contrast, noble savage writings presented the earliest stages of humanity, as represented by Amerindians and others, as savage only in the sense, as Montaigne argues ...
... argues, are ultimately the roots of all evil; they are exacerbated by the existence of currency, the treacherous ... argue at length, Lahontan's Adario asserts that this freedom from dependence is the source of true liberty, a quality ...
... argues against the complete “destruction” of the Iroquois not because of humanitarian concerns, but rather due to the probability that the enemies of the Iroquois would then turn against New France. Thus, Lahontan recommends playing off ...
... argues that scholars' learned studies of human nature, even those that ostensibly draw upon the new knowledge of non-European peoples, are merely treatises about their own nations. Rousseau argues that those who undertake the arduous ...
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