Race, empire, and the idea of human development
By: McCarthy, Thomas
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BookPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009Description: viii, 254 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780521519717 (hardback); 0521519713 (hardback); 9780521740432 (pbk.); 0521740436 (pbk.).Subject(s): Social evolution -- Philosophy | Race | ImperialismDDC classification: 305.800
Contents:
Political philosophy and racial injustice : a preliminary note on methodology -- Kant on race and development -- Social darwinism and white supremacy -- Coming to terms with the past : on the politics of the memory of slavery -- What may we hope? : reflections on the idea of universal history in the wake of Kant -- Liberal imperialism and the dilemma of development -- From modernism to messianism : reflections on the state of "development" -- Conclusion : the presence of the past.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Political philosophy and racial injustice : a preliminary note on methodology -- Kant on race and development -- Social darwinism and white supremacy -- Coming to terms with the past : on the politics of the memory of slavery -- What may we hope? : reflections on the idea of universal history in the wake of Kant -- Liberal imperialism and the dilemma of development -- From modernism to messianism : reflections on the state of "development" -- Conclusion : the presence of the past.
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