ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the process ofabjection. The twin elements ofhope and fear in Enlightenment thought, I have argued, traveled and mutated as comparative methods that differentiated and divided the qualities of those "civilized" from those who were cast out of that space. The cosmopolitan hope of universal understanding of diversity and an inclusive society with rights for all (or at least to extend the boundaries of inclusion downward from the aristocracy in the 18th century) inscribed that society's reason as different from "others" classified as "the less civilized."
