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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... present at the Yale Political Theory Colloquium. I also thank David Johnston for his support and an invitation to present my work at the Faculty Seminar in Social and Political Thought at Columbia University. I benefited from many ...
... present a paper at a conference on “The Legacy of Colonization and tre d' Decolonization Etude ́ in Europe and the Americas”, sponsored by the Cendes Politiques Immigration, d'Int ́egration et de Citoyennet ́e (CEPIC) of the Sorbonne ...
... present the key philosophical sources and legacies of the strand of Enlightenment anti-imperialism under study in this book. I argue that Diderot's, Kant's, and Herder's incisive and hitherto underappreciated arguments against empire ...
... presents New World peoples there both to flesh out the image of a pure state of nature and to present empirical examples of the middle (post-natural, but precivilized) stage of human development. The manner in which Enlightenment ...
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