Englands sad estate lamented and her abominations discovered [[electronic resource] ] : which are the curse of the present visitation of Gods judgments upon her inhabitants : in which also is declared the true, only, and alone way by which the future judgments threatned may be escaped : wherein also the rulers of the nation may see their state and perceive the danger they are in / / written this 7th month by Josiah Coale

• Record Nr.: UNISA996389837703316
• Autore: Coale Josiah <1632?-1668.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [London, : s.n.], 1665
• Descrizione fisica: 18 p
• Soggetti: Dissenters, Religious - England; Society of Friends
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Reproduction of original in the Harvard University Library.
• Sommario/riassunto: eebo-0062

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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910966471103321
• Autore: Brunstetter Daniel R.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Routledge, 2012; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-280-68281-7; 9786613659750; 1-136-29065-6; 0-203-11431-0
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• 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 other peoples; Difference (Philosophy); Genocide - Philosophy; Enlightenment - France
• 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