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200 10$aTensions of modernity $eLas Casas and his legacy in the French Enlightenment /$fDaniel R. Brunstetter
210  1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2012.
215   $a1 online resource (229 p.)
225 1 $aRoutledge innovations in political theory ;$v44
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-138-84901-4 
311   $a0-415-52784-8 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aModernity 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, Sepu?lveda 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.
330   $aPolitics 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
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606   $aEquality$xPhilosophy$xHistory
606   $aOther (Philosophy)$xHistory
606   $aCivilization, Modern$xPhilosophy
606   $aIndians, Treatment of$xPhilosophy$xHistory
606   $aIndians$xFirst contact with Europeans
606   $aDifference (Philosophy)
606   $aGenocide$xPhilosophy
606   $aEnlightenment$zFrance
608   $aElectronic books.
615  0$aHuman rights$xPhilosophy$xHistory.
615  0$aEquality$xPhilosophy$xHistory.
615  0$aOther (Philosophy)$xHistory.
615  0$aCivilization, Modern$xPhilosophy.
615  0$aIndians, Treatment of$xPhilosophy$xHistory.
615  0$aIndians$xFirst contact with Europeans.
615  0$aDifference (Philosophy)
615  0$aGenocide$xPhilosophy.
615  0$aEnlightenment
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