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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462302203321

Autore

Brunstetter Daniel R.

Titolo

Tensions of modernity : Las Casas and his legacy in the French Enlightenment / / Daniel R. Brunstetter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-280-68281-7

9786613659750

1-136-29065-6

0-203-11431-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

Routledge innovations in political theory ; ; 44

Disciplina

323.101

Soggetti

Human rights - Philosophy - History

Equality - Philosophy - History

Other (Philosophy) - History

Civilization, Modern - Philosophy

Indians, Treatment of - Philosophy - History

Indians - First contact with Europeans

Difference (Philosophy)

Genocide - Philosophy

Enlightenment - France

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Modernity and the other: a story of inequality -- Locating the other in the political debates of early modernity -- Thinking and rethinking the equality of the other: Vitoria, Sepúlveda and the true barbarians -- Las Casas and the other: the tension between equality and cultural othercide -- From the civilizing mission to irreconcilable alterity: the changing perception of the Indians in the French Enlightenment -- The other side of modernity: legitimizing the transition from cultural othercide to physical othercide -- Looking to the future.

Sommario/riassunto

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 democratic principles. This book revisits Europe's initial encounter with the Native Americans of the New World to shed light on how the West's initial defense of so-called 'barbarians' has influenced the way we think about diversity today, and elucidate the arguments of exclusion t