Tensions of modernity : Las Casas and his legacy in the French Enlightenment / / Daniel R. Brunstetter.
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| Superior document: | Routledge innovations in political theory ; 44 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge innovations in political theory ;
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 212 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- Modernity and the other: a story of inequality
- Locating the other in the political debates of early modernity
- Thinking and rethinking the equality of the other: Vitoria, Sepulveda and the true barbarians
- Las Casas and the other: the tension between equality and cultural othercide
- From the civilizing mission to irreconcilable alterity: the changing perception of the Indians in the French Enlightenment
- The other side of modernity: legitimizing the transition from cultural othercide to physical othercide
- Looking to the future.