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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... Political Science Association conference in Washington, D.C.; I learned much from their papers and comments. Alan Patten offered illuminating questions about my chapter on Herder at a panel on Enlightenment political thought and ...
... political thought, which first drew me to Harvard's Department of Government, has served as a model for my feeble efforts. As I developed my dissertation prospectus, I received helpful comments from Peter Berkowitz, Daniel Gordon ...
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Sankar Muthu. One. Introduction: Enlightenment. Political. Thought. and. the. Age. of. Empire. In the late eighteenth century, a number of prominent European political thinkers attacked imperialism, not only defending non-European peoples ...
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