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Modern Inquisitions: Peru And The Colonial Origins Of The Civilized World (Latin America Otherwise)
Modern Inquisitions Peru And The Colonial Origins Of The Civilized World - Latin America Otherwise
Author: Irene Silverblatt
Trying to understand how "civilized" people could embrace fascism, Hannah Arendt searched for a precedent in modern Western history. She found it in nineteenth-century colonialism, with its mix of bureaucratic rule, racial superiority, and appeals to rationality. Modern Inquisitions takes Arendt’s insights about the barbaric underside of We...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780822334170
ISBN-10: 0822334178
Publication Date: 10/2004
Pages: 299
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Publisher: Duke University Press
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