Enlightenment against empire
Sankar Muthu (Author)
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
eBook, English, ©2003
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2003
History
1 online resource (xiv, 348 pages)
9781400825882, 9780691115177, 9781282087798, 9786612087790, 1400825881, 0691115176, 1282087797, 661208779X
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One: Introduction: Enlightenment Political Thought and the Age of Empire
Two: Toward a Subversion of Noble Savagery: From Natural Humans to Cultural Humans
Three: Diderot and the Evils of Empire: The Histoire des deux Indes
Four: Humanity and Culture in Kant's Politics
Five: Kant's Anti-imperialism: Cultural Agency and Cosmopolitan Right
Six: Pluralism, Humanity, and Empire in Herder's Political Thought
Seven: Conclusion: The Philosophical Sources and Legacies of Enlightenment Anti-imperialism
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