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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... kind of cultural agency, but, given the predominant 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 ...
... 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 treatment of cannibalism, then, allows him both to ...
... kind between natural and artificial societies—is a presumption of Lahontan's entire dialogue and of noble savage writings more generally, the simple fact of what was taken to be exotic difference did not in and of itself make a foreign ...
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