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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... asserted. Montaigne makes the simple naturalness of Amerindians explicit when he concludes that “[t]hese nations, then, seem to me barbarous only in this sense, that they have been fashioned very little by the human mind, and are still ...
... asserted by virtually all of the foremost social contract thinkers in the European tradition, from Grotius and Hobbes to Locke and Pufendorf (though not, as we shall see, by Kant), for this supposed anthropological fact about ...
... assertion of the cannibals essay, that “these peoples are fashioned very little by the human mind” (153), this thicker view of Amerindian life emerges as a curious and somewhat inconsistent footnote to the more central theme of the ...
... asserts that Europeans surpass Amerindians “in every kind of barbarity”, a claim whose general formulation would recur in many noble savage accounts: it is we who are the real (or the more fully realized) barbarians (156). Montaigne's ...
... assert, as John Locke could with confidence in the 1680s, that “in the beginning all the World was America.”12 The presentation of New World peoples that served as the anthropological basis of unorthodox, or even radical, moral and ...
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