Tensions of Modernity
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Tensions of Modernity

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Politics today is marked by tension between claims of universal human rights and diversity. From the war on terror to immigration, one of the major challenges facing liberalism is to understand the scope of equality in a world in which certain peoples are perceived to reject and/or violently resist democratic principles.

This book revisits Europe's initial encounter with the Native Americans of the New World to shed light on how the West's initial defense of so-called 'barbarians' has influenced the way we think about diversity today, and elucidate the arguments of exclusion that unconsciously permeate the moral world we live in. In doing so, Daniel R. Brunstetter traces Bartolomé de Las Casas's oft heralded defense of the Native Americans in the sixteenth century through the French Enlightenment. While this defense has been rightly lauded as an early example of human rights discourse, tracing Las Casas's arguments into the eighteenth century shows how his view of equality enabled arguments legitimizing the annihilation by 'just' war of those perceived to be 'barbarians'.

This philosophical narrative can be useful when thinking about concepts such as just war, multiculturalism, and immigration, or any area in which politics confronts radical difference.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2012
ISBN
9781136290640
Edition
1
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Politics
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. 1 Modernity and the Other: A Story of Inequality
  9. 2 Locating the Other in the Political Debates of Early Modernity
  10. 3 Thinking and Rethinking the Equality of the Other: Vitoria, SepĂșlveda, and the True Barbarians
  11. 4 Las Casas and the Other: The Tension between Equality and Cultural Othercide
  12. 5 From the Civilizing Mission to Irreconcilable Alterity: The Changing Perception of the Indians in the French Enlightenment
  13. 6 The Other Side of Modernity: Legitimizing the Transition from Cultural Othercide to Physical Othercide
  14. 7 Conclusion: Looking to the Future—Quo Vadis?
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index