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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... Noble Savage Theory The New World as a Device of Social 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 ...
... noble savage thinking, which exerted an enormous influence upon many eighteenth-century thinkers, including Diderot. Focusing principally upon understandings of 'natural men' in Montaigne, Lahontan, and Rousseau, I then turn toward ...
... noble savage writings yielded a virtually dehumanizing exoticism, despite the best intentions of the thinkers who chose to celebrate what they saw as the 'purely natural' specimens of humanity in the New World. In order to understand ...
... noble savagery that most informed Rousseau's (and through Rousseau ... noble savagery.3 To the extent that early accounts contained any positive assessments ... savage sentiments, for instance, can be found in missionaries' writings that ...
... noble savage accounts, however, broadly attacked Europe's moral standing—and that of all civilizations— rather than supporting the more conventional social and political aims that inspired many of the isolated fragments of wonder and ...
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