Tensions of modernity : Las Casas and his legacy in the French Enlightenment / / Daniel R. Brunstetter
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| Autore: |
Brunstetter Daniel R.
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| Titolo: |
Tensions of modernity : Las Casas and his legacy in the French Enlightenment / / Daniel R. Brunstetter
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 323.101 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Tensions of modernity |
| ISBN: | 1-280-68281-7 |
| 9786613659750 | |
| 1-136-29065-6 | |
| 0-203-11431-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910462302203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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Routledge innovations in political theory ; ; 44.