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...

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Publicado en:Eighteenth Century: Theory & Interpretation Vol. 55; no. 2/3; pp. 153 - 175
Autor principal: Ahmed, Siraj
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Publicado: University of Pennsylvania Press Summer/Fall 2014
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