Tensions of Modernity : Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment.

Tensions of Modernity : Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment.

Politics today is marked by tension between claims of universal human rights and diversity. From the war on terror to immigration, one of the major challenges facing liberalism is to understand the scope of equality in a world in which certain peoples are perceived to reject and/or violently resist...

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Main Author: Brunstetter, Daniel R. R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Series:Routledge innovations in political theory.
Subjects:
Casas, Bartolomé de las, > 1484-1566 > Influence.
Casas, Bartolomé de las, > 1484-1566
Human rights > Philosophy > History.
Equality > Philosophy > History.
Other (Philosophy) > History.
Civilization, Modern > Philosophy.
Indians, Treatment of > Philosophy > History.
Indians > First contact with other peoples.
Difference (Philosophy)
Genocide > Philosophy.
Enlightenment > France.
Civilization, Modern > Philosophy
Enlightenment
Equality > Philosophy
Human rights > Philosophy
Indians > First contact with other peoples
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Other (Philosophy)
France
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Tensions of Modernity: Las Casas and His Legacy inthe French Enlightenment; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Modernity and the Other: A Story of Inequality; 2 Locating the Other in the Political Debates of Early Modernity; 3 Thinking and Rethinking the Equality of the Other: Vitoria, Sepúlveda, and the True Barbarians; 4 Las Casas and the Other: The Tension between Equality and Cultural Othercide; 5 From the Civilizing Mission to Irreconcilable Alterity: The Changing Perception of the Indians in the French Enlightenment.
  • 6 The Other Side of Modernity: Legitimizing the Transition from Cultural Othercide to Physical Othercide7 Conclusion: Looking to the Future--Quo Vadis?; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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