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Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development - Couverture souple

Mccarthy, Thomas

 
9780521740432: Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521740436 ISBN 13 : 9780521740432
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

In an exciting study of ideas accompanying the rise of the West, Thomas McCarthy analyzes the ideologies of race and empire that were integral to European-American expansion. He highlights the central role that conceptions of human development (civilization, progress, modernization, and the like) played in answering challenges to legitimacy through a hierarchical ordering of difference. Focusing on Kant and natural history in the eighteenth century, Mill and social Darwinism in the nineteenth, and theories of development and modernization in the twentieth, he proposes a critical theory of development which can counter contemporary neoracism and neoimperialism, and can accommodate the multiple modernities now taking shape. Offering an unusual perspective on the past and present of our globalizing world, this book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of philosophy, political theory, the history of ideas, racial and ethnic studies, social theory, and cultural studies.

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À propos de l'auteur

Thomas McCarthy is William H. Orrick Visiting Professor at Yale University and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Northwestern University.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521740436
ISBN 13 
9780521740432
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
264
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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