Daniel R. Brunstetter

Tensions of Modernity (eBook, PDF)

Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment

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Produktbeschreibung

Where is the boundary line between civilization and barbarism drawn? When is the Other really Other, and thus no longer deserving of rights? Daniel R. Brunstetter expertly examines the place of inequality within the liberal thread of modernity by turning to the intellectual history surrounding the European discovery of the New World, and the notion of the human that emerged from the intellectual debates about the rights of the Indians.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136290657
• Artikelnr.: 38444952

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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?