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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Pagina xvi
... Europe and the Soviet Union . For the end of the 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 ...
... Europe and the Soviet Union . For the end of the 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 ...
Pagina xviii
... European ) imperial origins of " America " disclosed by a genealogical reading of the American canonical tradition — the Pax Americana . The structure of America's Shadow is not intended to articulate a sustained argument . Rather ...
... European ) imperial origins of " America " disclosed by a genealogical reading of the American canonical tradition — the Pax Americana . The structure of America's Shadow is not intended to articulate a sustained argument . Rather ...
Pagina xix
... European imperialism . By way of thinking its etymology — meta - ta - physika , " after or beyond or above physis " ( temporality and the differences it always already disseminates ) — this chapter thematizes a privileged relay of ...
... European imperialism . By way of thinking its etymology — meta - ta - physika , " after or beyond or above physis " ( temporality and the differences it always already disseminates ) — this chapter thematizes a privileged relay of ...
Pagina xxi
... European identity enabled by the representation of being in terms of the imperial metaphysical principle of presence . The historically specific practice appears to be more discontinuous than my Heidegger- ian interpretation will allow ...
... European identity enabled by the representation of being in terms of the imperial metaphysical principle of presence . The historically specific practice appears to be more discontinuous than my Heidegger- ian interpretation will allow ...
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... European empires such as those of Alexander the Great and , above all , the Romans , but they invariably represent the imperialism of these em- pires as that which imperialism proper is not . These commentators refer to other sites ...
... European empires such as those of Alexander the Great and , above all , the Romans , but they invariably represent the imperialism of these em- pires as that which imperialism proper is not . These commentators refer to other sites ...
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