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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... arguments and provided welcome opportunities to reflect upon thoughtful criticisms; many thanks to all those who offered comments on my research. I thank Morris Kaplan for many conversations and for his invitation to give a lecture at ...
... arguments that I make in chapter 7 was published as “Enlightenment Anti-Imperialism” in Social Research, vol. 66 (1999). “Justice and Foreigners: Kant's Cosmopolitan Right”, in Constellations, vol. 7 (2000), contains a previous version ...
... arguments; I have benefited greatly from her insightful and learned advice. It is because of Patrick Riley that I first cultivated a passion for the study of political thought. He has gone above and beyond the call of duty in providing ...
... arguments about human nature, cultural diversity, cross-cultural moral judgements, and political obligations. This study aims both to pluralize our understanding of the philosophical era known as 'the Enlightenment' and to explore a set ...
... arguments about European imperialism.2 In exploring the rise of anti-imperialist arguments in Enlightenment political thought, I concentrate upon the philosophically robust and distinctive strand of such arguments made by Denis Diderot ...
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