What is it about?
Christian Eurocentrism, in which Erasmus’ thinking is anchored, is anti-cosmopolitan and anti-internationalist. One should not mistake Erasmus’ “cosmopolitanism”: it is no other than Christian Eurocentrism. Erasmus’ mind was solely and intensively occupied with Christian Europe: in which the Jews and Muslims were deemed to be the “other,” even if they had converted to Christianity; in which a hierarchy of peoples and races was to be maintained.
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No comprehensive research on Erasmus’ ethnological mind has hitherto been published. Erasmus’ attitudes toward Turks and Jews have been discussed by researchers analytically but neither synthetically nor comparatively, as is in this essay.
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This page is a summary of: Erasmus’ ethnological hierarchy of peoples and races, History of European Ideas, June 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/01916599.2018.1485002.
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