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Modern Inquisitions: Peru And The Colonial Origins Of The Civilized World (Latin America Otherwise),New
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Trying To Understand How Civilized People Could Embrace Fascism, Hannah Arendt Searched For A Precedent In Modern Western History. She Found It In Nineteenthcentury Colonialism, With Its Mix Of Bureaucratic Rule, Racial Superiority, And Appeals To Rationality. Modern Inquisitions Takes Arendts Insights Into The Barbaric Underside Of Western Civilization And Moves Them Back To The Sixteenth Century And Seventeenth, When Spanish Colonialism Dominated The Globe. Irene Silverblatt Describes How The Modern World Developed In Tandem With Spanish Imperialism And Argues That Key Characteristics Of The Modern State Are Evident In The Workings Of The Inquisition. Her Analysis Of The Tribunals Persecution Of Women And Men In Colonial Peru Illuminates Modernitys Intricate Dance Of Bureaucracy And Race.Drawing On Extensive Research In Peruvian And Spanish Archives, Silverblatt Uses Church Records, Evangelizing Sermons, And Missionary Guides To Explore How The Emerging Modern World Was Built, Experienced, And Understood By Colonists, Native Peoples, And Inquisition Officials: Early Missionaries Preached About World History And About The Races And Nations That Inhabited The Globe; Inquisitors, Able Bureaucrats, Defined Who Was A Legitimate Spaniard As They Executed Heretics For Reasons Of State; The Stained Blood Of Indians, Blacks, And Descendants Of Jews And Moors Was Said To Cause Their Deficient Character; And Native Peruvians Began To Call Themselves Indian.In Dialogue With Arendt And Other Theorists Of Modernity, Silverblatt Shows That The Modern Worlds Underside Is Tied To Its Origins In Colonialism And To Its Capacity To Rationalize Violence. Modern Inquisitions Forces The Reader To Confront The Idea That The Inquisition Was Not Only A Product Of The Modern World Of The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries, But Party To The Creation Of The Civilized World We Know Today.
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