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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... term, Enlightenment political theory simply refers to the political thought of the long eighteenth century (that is ... terms of convenience, 'the Enlightenment' groups together an extraordinarily diverse set of authors, texts, arguments ...
... term 'cultural agency', I am not suggesting that Enlightenment anti-imperialists believed that there are different cultures, that non-Europeans are members of distinct cultures, and that such cultures are of worth equal to that of all ...
... term 'cultural' is only somewhat anachronistic, since the philosophical use of the term 'culture' itself, in particular to denote some aspect of the differences among humans, emerges in a number of late eighteenth-century German ...
... terms with the complicated and intriguing manner in which Diderot, Kant, and Herder interweave commitments to moral universalism and moral incommensurability, to humanity and cultural difference. Such universal and particular categories ...
... term sauvage, in his view, shows that Europeans who have altered themselves and their environments are in fact ... term in this context), his analysis of the term “savage” serves only to replicate antecedent understandings of Amerindians ...
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