LEADER 04280nam 22006854a 450 001 9910454716003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-08779-7 010 $a9786612087790 010 $a1-4008-2588-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400825882 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756305 035 $a(EBL)445521 035 $a(OCoLC)367660794 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000147834 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11150581 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000147834 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10017159 035 $a(PQKB)11627073 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445521 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36290 035 $a(DE-B1597)446404 035 $a(OCoLC)979631681 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400825882 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445521 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284155 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208779 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756305 100 $a20021113d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEnlightenment against empire$b[electronic resource] /$fSankar Muthu 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (364 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-11516-8 311 $a0-691-11517-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [325]-340) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgements -- $t1. Introduction: Enlightenment Political Thought and the Age of Empire -- $t2. Toward a Subversion of Noble Savagery: From Natural Humans to Cultural Humans -- $t3. Diderot and the Evils of Empire: The Histoire des deux Indes -- $t4. Humanity and Culture in Kant's Politics -- $t5. Kant's Anti-imperialism: Cultural Agency and Cosmopolitan Right -- $t6. Pluralism, Humanity, and Empire in Herder's Political Thought -- $t7. Conclusion: The Philosophical Sources and Legacies of Enlightenment Anti-imperialism -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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. Muthu shows how such arguments enabled the era's anti-imperialists to defend the freedom of non-European peoples to order their own societies. In contrast to those who praise "the Enlightenment" as the triumph of a universal morality and critics who view it as an imperializing ideology that denigrated cultural pluralism, Muthu argues instead that eighteenth-century political thought included multiple Enlightenments. He reveals a distinctive and underappreciated strand of Enlightenment thinking that interweaves commitments to universal moral principles and incommensurable ways of life, and that links the concept of a shared human nature with the idea that humans are fundamentally diverse. Such an intellectual temperament, Muthu contends, can broaden our own perspectives about international justice and the relationship between human unity and diversity. 606 $aImperialism 606 $aPolitical science$zEurope$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aEnlightenment 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aImperialism. 615 0$aPolitical science$xHistory 615 0$aEnlightenment. 676 $a325/.32/01 700 $aMuthu$b Sankar$f1970-$01043391 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454716003321 996 $aEnlightenment against empire$92468327 997 $aUNINA