Tensions of modernity : las Casas and his legacy in the French Enlightenment / Daniel R. Brunstetter

• 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, Sepl︢veda 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.

Ämnesord

Human rights  -- Philosophy -- History. (LCSH)

Equality  -- Philosophy -- History. (LCSH)

Other (Philosophy)  -- History. (LCSH)

Civilization, Modern  -- Philosophy. (LCSH)

Indians, Treatment of  -- Philosophy -- History. (LCSH)

Indians  -- First contact with Europeans. (LCSH)

Difference (Philosophy)  (LCSH)

Genocide  -- Philosophy. (LCSH)

Enlightenment  -- France. (LCSH)

Personnamn

Casas, Bartolom ̌de las, 1474-1566 -- Influence.

Klassifikation

323.101 (DDC)

Oc.01 (kssb/8 (machine generated))