America's Shadow: An Anatomy of EmpireU of Minnesota Press, 2000 - 287 pagini A study of imperialism that stretches from ancient Rome to the post-Cold War World, this provocative work boldly revises our assumptions about the genealogy of the West. Rather than locating its source in classical Greece, William V. Spanos argues, we should look to ancient Rome, which first articulated the ideas that would become fundamental to the West's imperial project. These founding ideas, he claims, have informed the American national identity and its foreign policy from its origins. The Vietnam War is at the center of this book. In the contradiction between the "free world" logic employed to justify U.S. intervention in Vietnam and the genocidal practices used to realize that logic, Spanos finds the culmination of an imperialistic discourse reaching back to the colonizing rationale of the Roman Empire. Spanos identifies the language of expansion in the "white" metaphors in Western philosophical discourse since the colonization of Greek thought by the Romans. He shows how these metaphors, and their role in metaphysical discourse, have long been complicit in the violence of imperialism. |
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... Cold War discourse , but , at least symp- tomatically , with the idea of the America dream itself . That is to say , the study of these texts suggested that this appropriation of the metaphor of the wound was intended to serve a ...
... Cold War discourse , but , at least symp- tomatically , with the idea of the America dream itself . That is to say , the study of these texts suggested that this appropriation of the metaphor of the wound was intended to serve a ...
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... Cold War was announced not simply as the Pax Americana , but as the precipitate — " the good news " in Francis Fukuyama's escha- tological rhetoric of the dialectics of Universal History , a narrative that , like de Tocqueville's ...
... Cold War was announced not simply as the Pax Americana , but as the precipitate — " the good news " in Francis Fukuyama's escha- tological rhetoric of the dialectics of Universal History , a narrative that , like de Tocqueville's ...
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... Cold War conjuncture in the totalizing image of a " deregulated world " ( in contrast to the world " regulated " by the Cold War scenario ) and the role of the United States in the trope of a sheriff leading posses ( the appropriate ...
... Cold War conjuncture in the totalizing image of a " deregulated world " ( in contrast to the world " regulated " by the Cold War scenario ) and the role of the United States in the trope of a sheriff leading posses ( the appropriate ...
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... Cold War American end - of - history discourse . But I wish to make it clear at the beginning that , in doing so , I am referring not to a particular theory , but to a fundamental American tradition whose theorization extends from de ...
... Cold War American end - of - history discourse . But I wish to make it clear at the beginning that , in doing so , I am referring not to a particular theory , but to a fundamental American tradition whose theorization extends from de ...
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... Cold War , end - of - history discourse in the context of the ques- tion of its relationship to European imperialism . By way of thinking its etymology — meta - ta - physika , " after or beyond or above physis " ( temporality and the ...
... Cold War , end - of - history discourse in the context of the ques- tion of its relationship to European imperialism . By way of thinking its etymology — meta - ta - physika , " after or beyond or above physis " ( temporality and the ...
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