An edition of Tensions of modernity
(2012)
Tensions of modernity
las Casas and his legacy in the French Enlightenment
by Daniel R. Brunstetter
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Subjects
Human rights, History, Philosophy, Equality, First contact with Europeans, Other (Philosophy), Indians, Influence, Modern Civilization, Genocide, Difference (Philosophy), Enlightenment, Treatment of Indians, Civilization, modern, Indians, treatment of, Indians, first contact with europeans, Difference (philosophy), Casas, bartolome de las, 1474-1566, First contact with other peoples, Droits de l'homme (Droit international), Philosophie, Histoire, Altérité, Indiens d'Amérique, Premiers contacts avec les Européens, Différence (Philosophie), Siècle des Lumières, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Political Freedom & Security, Civil Rights, Human Rights, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)Places
France
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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, 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.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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