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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... become the standard objections in the noble savage literature against European civilized society. Moreover, he examines two subjects that would play a prominent role in many later eighteenth-century noble savage writings: Christianity ...
... become single again (120). In addition, the power of fathers to choose, or to veto, their daughters' potential mate in Europe is absent, Lahontan asserts, among Amerindians (222–23). Instead, he continues, young women are given complete ...
... become an amorphous, undifferentiated whole, even for someone like Lahontan, who learned a great deal about Huron ... becomes increasingly difficult to discern. As we shall see, Rousseau's conjectural anthropology engenders a theory of ...
... becomes clear why New World ethnography, as filtered through the lens of noble savagery, offered ideal resources for ... become social creatures, in his view, a corruption of their natural, purely instinctive characteristics inevitably ...
... virtues and faculties in potentiality (because of their 'perfectibility') happened to become, through a series of random occurrences that were by no means predestined, intelligent but 35 NATURAL HUMANS TO CULTURAL HUMANS.
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