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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521519717
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96528531
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Political Science
Author
Thomas Mccarthy
Publication Name
Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
560g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Thomas Mccarthy
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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