Tensions of modernity [electronic resource] : Las Casas and his legacy in the French Enlightenment / Daniel R. Brunstetter.
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TextSeries: Routledge innovations in political theory ; v. 44Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2012.Description: xiii, 212 pISBN: - 9780203114315 (e-book : PDF)
- Casas, Bartolomãae de las, 1474-1566 -- Influence
- Human rights -- Philosophy -- History
- Equality -- Philosophy -- History
- Other (Philosophy) -- History
- Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy
- Indians, Treatment of -- Philosophy -- History
- Indians -- First contact with Europeans
- Difference (Philosophy
- Genocide -- Philosophy
- Enlightenment -- France
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-206) and index.
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, Sepãaulveda, 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 -- 6. The other side of modernity : legitimizing the transition from cultural othercide to physical othercide -- 7. Conclusion : looking to the future : quo vadis?
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