Coloniality and the rise of liberation thinking during the sixteenth century
This book explores the famous works of Thomas More, Erasmus, Las Casas, and Guaman Poma de Ayala as they develop what is described here as sixteenth-century liberation thinking in context of the Americas.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Amsterdam : Arc Humanities Press,
2021
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Mesoamerica, the Caribbean, and South America, 700-1700 Ser.
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| Schlagworte: | Liberation theology Humanism Humanism-History-16th century Electronic books Kolonialismus Humanismus Geschichte 1500-1600 |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (256 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | This book explores the famous works of Thomas More, Erasmus, Las Casas, and Guaman Poma de Ayala as they develop what is described here as sixteenth-century liberation thinking in context of the Americas. Front Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Epigraphy -- Table of contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION -- The Colonial Force, Coloniality, and Liberation from Them -- Coloniality: Psychosis and Implicit Bias -- Genesis and Organization of this Book -- Chapter 1. EVERYDAY COLONIALITY AND EARLY SOCIAL SLAVERY THEORY -- Coloniality of Structure and Coloniality of Mind -- Nahua Slavery, Spanish Slavery, and Spanish Appropriation of Nahua Slavery -- The Encomienda and the Imposition of Debt Peonage -- Chattel Slavery's Philosophical Underpinnings -- Columbus: One Small Step beyond Aristotle -- Chapter 2. THE ELUSIVE DIVISION-OF-POWER IDEAL -- Hernán Cortés: Using Spiritual Power to Temporal Advantage -- The Encomienda, the Church, and the Fusion of Temporal and Spiritual Power -- Royal Patronage and Fusion of Power -- On the Temporality of Ecclesiastical Authorities -- Chapter 3. DISMANTLING THE "NATURAL" THEORY OF SLAVERY -- Thomas More, Ethics, and the New World -- Las Casas, the Cry against Slavery, and the Birth of Indigenismo -- Erasmus' Condemnation of Greed -- Beyond Aristotle: Renaissance Liberation Thinking, a New Awareness -- Chapter 4. LIBERATION THINKING: EUROPE -- Liberation Thinking as Decolonial Thought -- Combatting the Wickedness Within, and Without -- Thomas More, Sir, Saint, Liberation Thinker -- Gold and Free Will -- On Liberation from Private Property -- Discernment on the Material and the Development of the Conscience -- Erasmus of Rotterdam and the Life of the Spirit -- Division of Power: Popes, Priests, Princes, and Men -- Primitive Christianity and the War within the Mind -- Against Materialism, Advocating Nonviolence -- Chapter 5. LIBERATION THINKING: THE AMERICAS (ABYA YALA). |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (256 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781641894111 1641894113 9781641894104 1641894105 |