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Tensions of Modernity - Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment (Paperback)
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Tensions of Modernity - Las Casas and His Legacy in the French Enlightenment (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
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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 Bartolome 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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