Tensions of modernity : Las Casas and his legacy in the French Enlightenment - Brunstetter, Daniel R. (New York : Routledge, 2012)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: Casas, Bartolomé de las, -- 1484-1566 -- Influence; 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; Electronic books