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Enlightened Colonialism - Civilization Narratives and Imperial Politics in the Age of Reason (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Enlightened Colonialism - Civilization Narratives and Imperial Politics in the Age of Reason (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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This book further qualifies the postcolonial thesis and shows its
limits. To reach these goals, it links text analysis and political
history on a global comparative scale. Focusing on imperial agents,
their narratives of progress, and their political aims and
strategies, it asks whether Enlightenment gave birth to a new
colonialism between 1760 and 1820. Has Enlightenment provided the
cultural and intellectual origins of modern colonialism? For
decades, historians of political thought, philosophy, and
literature have debated this question. On one side, many
postcolonial authors believe that enlightened rationalism helped
delegitimize non-European cultures. On the other side, some
historians of ideas and literature are willing to defend at least
some eighteenth-century philosophers whom they consider to have
been "anti-colonialists". Surprisingly enough, both sides have
focused on literary and philosophical texts, but have rarely taken
political and social practice into account.
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