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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... Moral Incommensurability Notes Works Cited Index 133 135 138 141 144 155 162 172 173 180 186 200 210 212 218 221 224 226 238 247 259 260 266 285 325 341 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The initial research for this book was made possible x CONTENTS.
Sankar Muthu. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. The initial research for this book was made possible as a result of generous funding by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. I also thank the Mellon Foundation for a dissertation ...
... possible (and sometimes even a nonexistent) moral status in the face of European imperial power. The idea of what it meant fundamentally to be human went through a transformation before an anti-imperialist political theory could emerge ...
... possible in part by contrasting this view, as we find it in Diderot's understanding of Tahitian society, from the influential image of New World peoples as 'noble savages'.1 This idealized conception of what were usually taken to be ...
... possible, he writes, by their lack of attachment to material goods: the “Savages know neither thine nor mine, for what belongs to one is equally that of another.” (95) Once again, as Montaigne had suggested, a vigorous and natural ...
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