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1 online resource (229 pages) |
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Routledge Innovations in Political Theory |
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Routledge innovations in political theory.
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Cover; Tensions of Modernity: Las Casas and His Legacy inthe French Enlightenment; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 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 Perception of the Indians in the French Enlightenment |
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6 The Other Side of Modernity: Legitimizing the Transition from Cultural Othercide to Physical Othercide7 Conclusion: Looking to the Future--Quo Vadis?; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 that unconsciously |
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Print version record |
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Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566 -- Influence
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| SUBJECT |
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566 fast |
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Human rights -- Philosophy -- History
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Equality -- Philosophy -- History
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Other (Philosophy) -- History
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Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy
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Indians, Treatment of -- Philosophy -- History
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Indians -- First contact with other peoples.
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Difference (Philosophy)
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Genocide -- Philosophy
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Enlightenment -- France
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Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy
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Difference (Philosophy)
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Enlightenment
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Equality -- Philosophy
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Human rights -- Philosophy
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Indians -- First contact with other peoples
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Other (Philosophy)
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France
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136290657 |
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1136290656 |
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