Dispossession and Civil Society: The Ambivalence of Enlightenment Political Philosophy.
The article examines the 18th-century concept of colonial degeneration, in which European settlers of the Americas, Africa, or Asia were thought to lose crucial characteristics of civilization and become savage. According to the author, this concept reflected the Enlightenment's ambivalence toward E...
| Publicado en: | Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation Vol. 55; no. 2/3; pp. 153 - 175 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
Summer/Fall 2014
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| Sumario: | The article examines the 18th-century concept of colonial degeneration, in which European settlers of the Americas, Africa, or Asia were thought to lose crucial characteristics of civilization and become savage. According to the author, this concept reflected the Enlightenment's ambivalence toward European modernity and specifically toward the origins of private property and civil society. The works of philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Denis Diderot, and Adam Smith are discussed. |
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