Tensions of Modernity: Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment

ISBN-13: 9780415527842 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 228 str.

Daniel R. Brunstetter

Opis

This text 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 that unconsciously permeate the moral world we live in.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Modernity and the Other: A Story of Inequality  2. Locating the Other in the Political Debates of Early Modernity  3. Thinking and Rethinking the Equality of the Other: Vitoria, Sepúlveda and the True Barbarians  4. Las Casas and the Other: The Tension between Equality and Cultural Othercide  5. From the Civilizing Mission to Irreconcilable Alterity: The Changing  6. The Other Side of Modernity: Rationalizing the Transition from Cultural Othercide to Physical Othercide  7. Conclusion: Lessons for the Future – Quo Vadis?

O autorze

Daniel R. Brunstetter is Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of California, Irvine.  His current research interests include early modern political thought, just war theory, French political thought in the Enlightenment, immigration in France, and narratives of the Silk Road.