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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Sankar Muthu. ENLIGHTENMENT AGAINST EMPIRE Sankar Muthu PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD Copyright 2003 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University.
... Empire 1 Enlightenment Anti-imperialism as a Historical Anomaly Synopsis 6 Two Toward a Subversion of Noble Savagery ... Empire: The Histoire des deux Indes The General Will of Humanity, the Partial Incommensurability of Moeurs, and the ...
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