Skepticism and the New World

The arrival of Europeans in the New World in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, often neglected by historians of philosophy, is a crucial historical event that transformed modern thought. Skepticism and the New World: The Anthropological Argument and the Emergence of Modernity argues that the encounter between Europeans and the inhabitants of the New World challenges Europeans' concept of a universal human nature and leads to new forms of skepticism.
Contrasting a theological and political debate on the rights of indigenous peoples with the rights of conquest and "just war" of the Spanish, Danilo Marcondes examines their anthropology, exploring how the French saw the indigenous cultures of the New World and how they shaped their epistemology.

Danilo Marcondes is tenured assistant professor at the Brazilian War College (Escola Superior de Guerra-ESG) in Rio de Janeiro.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Skepticism and the New World
Chapter 2: The Crisis of the Idea of a Universal Man and the Modern Discussion of Human
Rights
Chapter 3. La France Antarctique
Chapter 4: The Politics of Language in the New World
Chapter 5: New World, New Worlds
Bibliography
About the Author