Tensions of modernity : las Casas and his legacy in the French Enlightenment /: las Casas and his legacy in the French Enlightenment. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Daniel R. Brunstetter.
• Other Names: Brunstetter, Daniel R
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (228 pages)
• Subjects: 323.101; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Human Rights; Human rights -- Philosophy -- History; Equality -- Philosophy -- History; Other (Philosophy) -- History; Civilization, Modern -- Philosophy; Indians, Treatment of -- Philosophy -- History; Indians -- First contact with Europeans; Difference (Philosophy); Genocide -- Philosophy; Enlightenment -- France; PHILOSOPHY / Political; Influence
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781136290640; 1136290648
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.