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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... Injustices of 'Civilized' Sociability Humanity as Cultural Agency in Political Context: Combating State Paternalism Humanity as Cultural Agency in a Philosophy of History: Kant's Narrative of Hope Five Kant's Anti-imperialism: Cultural ...
... injustices of European imperial rule, as some earlier modern thinkers had done, but also challenging the idea that Europeans had any right to subjugate, colonize, and 'civilize' the rest of the world. This book is a study of this ...
... injustices and countered the dominant justifications of European imperialism include Jeremy Bentham, Condorcet, Diderot, Herder, Kant, and Adam Smith.8 Moreover, such denunciations of what Herder liked to call “the grand European ...
... injustices, defending non-European peoples against imperial rule, and attacking the standard rationales for empire. None of the most significant anti-imperialist thinkers of the eighteenth century can be matched with any nineteenth ...
... injustices of 'artificial' European societies. These critical impulses find their expression most clearly in Montaigne's response to the view that Amerindians are barbaric. [T]here is nothing barbarous and savage in that nation, from ...
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