Format:
Online-Ressource (364 p)
ISBN:
9780691115177
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
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;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400825882
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691115177
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Enlightenment against Empire
Language:
English
Subjects:
Philosophy
Keywords:
Europa
;
Imperialismus
;
Philosophie
;
Geschichte 1701-1800
;
Diderot, Denis 1713-1784
;
Kant, Immanuel 1724-1804
;
Herder, Johann Gottfried von 1744-1803
;
Politisches Denken
;
Imperialismus
;
Antiimperialismus
;
Electronic books
