In 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...
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In 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
Contents; Acknowledgements; One: Introduction: Enlightenment Political Thought and the Age of Empire; Two: Toward a Subversion of Noble Savagery: From Natural Humans to Cultural Humans; Three: Diderot and the Evils of Empire: The Histoire des deux Indes; Four: Humanity and Culture in Kant's Politics; Five: Kant's Anti-imperialism: Cultural Agency and Cosmopolitan Right; Six: Pluralism, Humanity, and Empire in Herder's Political Thought; Seven: Conclusion: The Philosophical Sources and Legacies of Enlightenment Anti-imperialism; Notes; Works Cited; Index;
In 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...
mehr
In 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
Contents; Acknowledgements; One: Introduction: Enlightenment Political Thought and the Age of Empire; Two: Toward a Subversion of Noble Savagery: From Natural Humans to Cultural Humans; Three: Diderot and the Evils of Empire: The Histoire des deux Indes; Four: Humanity and Culture in Kant's Politics; Five: Kant's Anti-imperialism: Cultural Agency and Cosmopolitan Right; Six: Pluralism, Humanity, and Empire in Herder's Political Thought; Seven: Conclusion: The Philosophical Sources and Legacies of Enlightenment Anti-imperialism; Notes; Works Cited; Index;
