civilizer

civ·i·lize

 (sĭv′ə-līz′)
tr.v. civ·i·lized, civ·i·liz·ing, civ·i·liz·es
1. To raise from barbarism to an enlightened stage of development; bring out of a primitive or savage state.
2. To educate in matters of culture and refinement; make more polished or sophisticated.

civ′i·liz′a·ble adj.
civ′i·liz′er n.
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References in periodicals archive
Eric Talbot Jensen et al., A Cyber Duty of Due Diligence: Gentle Civilizer or Crude Destabilizer?, 95 TEX.
(2) This is what I have argued in my The Gentle Civilizer of Nations.
Voir aussi Martti Koskenniemi, The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law, 1870-1960, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001 a la p 103; Tuska Benes, << From Indo-Germans to Aryans: Philology and the Racialization of Salvationalist National Rethoric, 1806-1830 >> dans Sara Eigen et Mark Larrimore, dir, The German Invention of Race, Albany, State University of New York Press, 2006, 167 a la p 168.
?Es el Gentle Civilizer of Nations del que habla el jurista finlandes Martti Koskenniemi, en un libro que llevaba el significativo subtitulo The Rise and Fall of International Law (1870-1960?) (13)??O es un derecho que persigue la virtud pero que es marginal, sobre todo cuando se enfrenta con las realidades del poder (14)?
Koskenniemi M (2001) The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960.
From her sense of disgust at "the actual practical working of the thing [...] the coarse material details," to the "coarse and clumsy" partner whose "intense vulgarity" further destroys the romantic fantasy, the recognizably female perspective of this allusion not only reinforces her broader gendering of culture in relation to the crude masculinity of the New Barbarians, it also locates the damsel culture more explicitly within the civilizer's self and implicates movement rhetoric in the naivete that leads to her distress.
and a constraint on power structures; a legitimizer and a civilizer. In
For Prospero "as a noble ruler and mage, a tyrant and megalomaniac, a necromancer, a Neoplatonic scientist, a colonial imperialist, a civilizer," see Orgel (1998), 11.
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