Author: David Scott
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231559690
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
What was distinctive about the evil of the transatlantic slave trade and New World slavery? In what ways can the present seek to rectify such historical wrongs, even while recognizing that they lie beyond repair? Irreparable Evil explores the legacy of slavery and its moral and political implications, offering a nuanced intervention into debates over reparations. David Scott reconsiders the story of New World slavery in a series of interconnected essays that focus on Jamaica and the Anglophone Caribbean. Slavery, he emphasizes, involved not only scarcely imaginable brutality on a mass scale but also the irreversible devastation of the ways of life and cultural worlds from which enslaved people were uprooted. Colonial extraction shaped modern capitalism; plantation slavery enriched colonial metropoles and simultaneously impoverished their peripheries. To account for this atrocity, Scott examines moral and reparatory modes of history and criticism, probing different conceptions of evil. He reflects on the paradoxes of seeking redress for the specific moral evil of slavery, criticizing the limitations of liberal rights-based arguments for reparations that pursue reconciliation with the past. Instead, this book argues, in making the urgent demand for reparations, we must acknowledge the fundamental irreparability of a wrong of such magnitude.
Irreparable Evil
Author: David Scott
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231559690
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
What was distinctive about the evil of the transatlantic slave trade and New World slavery? In what ways can the present seek to rectify such historical wrongs, even while recognizing that they lie beyond repair? Irreparable Evil explores the legacy of slavery and its moral and political implications, offering a nuanced intervention into debates over reparations. David Scott reconsiders the story of New World slavery in a series of interconnected essays that focus on Jamaica and the Anglophone Caribbean. Slavery, he emphasizes, involved not only scarcely imaginable brutality on a mass scale but also the irreversible devastation of the ways of life and cultural worlds from which enslaved people were uprooted. Colonial extraction shaped modern capitalism; plantation slavery enriched colonial metropoles and simultaneously impoverished their peripheries. To account for this atrocity, Scott examines moral and reparatory modes of history and criticism, probing different conceptions of evil. He reflects on the paradoxes of seeking redress for the specific moral evil of slavery, criticizing the limitations of liberal rights-based arguments for reparations that pursue reconciliation with the past. Instead, this book argues, in making the urgent demand for reparations, we must acknowledge the fundamental irreparability of a wrong of such magnitude.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231559690
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
What was distinctive about the evil of the transatlantic slave trade and New World slavery? In what ways can the present seek to rectify such historical wrongs, even while recognizing that they lie beyond repair? Irreparable Evil explores the legacy of slavery and its moral and political implications, offering a nuanced intervention into debates over reparations. David Scott reconsiders the story of New World slavery in a series of interconnected essays that focus on Jamaica and the Anglophone Caribbean. Slavery, he emphasizes, involved not only scarcely imaginable brutality on a mass scale but also the irreversible devastation of the ways of life and cultural worlds from which enslaved people were uprooted. Colonial extraction shaped modern capitalism; plantation slavery enriched colonial metropoles and simultaneously impoverished their peripheries. To account for this atrocity, Scott examines moral and reparatory modes of history and criticism, probing different conceptions of evil. He reflects on the paradoxes of seeking redress for the specific moral evil of slavery, criticizing the limitations of liberal rights-based arguments for reparations that pursue reconciliation with the past. Instead, this book argues, in making the urgent demand for reparations, we must acknowledge the fundamental irreparability of a wrong of such magnitude.
History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815
Author: Sir Archibald Alison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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The Works of Jeremy Bentham
Author: Jeremy Bentham
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385126533
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385126533
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
“The” Works of Jeremy Bentham
Author: Jeremy Bentham
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Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Languages : en
Pages : 616
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The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected
Author: Jeremy Bentham
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Works of Jeremy Bentham
Author: Jeremy Bentham
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Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Works
Author: Jeremy Bentham
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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The Works
Author: Jeremy Bentham
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Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Languages : en
Pages : 610
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The Works of Jeremy Bentham: Principles of judicial procedure
Author: Jeremy Bentham
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Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Category : Constitutional law
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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On the Evils & Remedy of Intemperance
Author: Lyman Beecher
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Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Category : Temperance
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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