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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... Criticism: The Overlapping and Rival Approaches of Diderot and Rousseau The Dehumanization of Natural Humanity Three Diderot and the Evils of Empire: The Histoire des deux Indes The General Will of Humanity, the Partial ...
Sankar Muthu. From Humanity to Personality Kant's Social Criticism: The Vulnerability and Commodification of Cultural Agency Humanity as Dignity Noumenon as the Curtailment of Metaphysics Aesthetic Humanity: The Opportunities and ...
... 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 SUNY-Purchase. Ian Shapiro kindly invited me to present at the Yale ...
... criticism, and good cheer. My sister and brother-in-law, Uma Muthu and John Vlahoplus, have been a constant source of encouragement and affection. My niece, Phoebe Tharaka Vlahoplus, has also encouraged me by asking repeatedly, “Are ...
... the plight of colonized peoples and those who launched explicit criticisms of Europeans' relations with the non-European world (including the most morally impassioned accounts, such as Bartolom ́e de Las 3 INTRODUCTION.
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