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 ; 44.Publication details: New York : Routledge, 2012.Description: xiii, 212 p. : illSubject(s): - Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566 -- 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
- 323.101 23
- JC571 .B754 2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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, Sepúlveda 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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.