Tensions of modernity
Subtitle: las Casas and his legacy in the French Enlightenment
By: Daniel R. Brunstetter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415527842; 9780203114315
Subjects: Human rights; History; Philosophy; Equality; First contact with Europeans; Other (Philosophy); Indians; Influence; Modern Civilization; Genocide; Difference (Philosophy); Enlightenment; Treatment of Indians
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Modernity and the other: a story of inequality; title: Locating the other in the political debates of early modernity; title: Thinking and rethinking the equality of the other: Vitoria, Sepúlveda and the true barbarians; title: Las Casas and the other: the tension between equality and cultural othercide; title: From the civilizing mission to irreconcilable alterity: the changing perception of the Indians in the French Enlightenment; title: The other side of modernity: legitimizing the transition from cultural othercide to physical othercide; title: Looking to the future.