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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... West . 5. Postmodernism - Political aspects - United States . I. Title . DS558.S687 2000 325'.32'0973 - dc21 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99-41284 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 TO THE MEMORY OF CONSTANCE COINER Sweet Constance , gentle.
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... West . I am also grateful to Vassilis Lambropoulos , director of Modern Greek Studies at Ohio State University , and to William Murphy of the University of Minnesota Press , both of whom read America's Shadow in manuscript form ...
... West . I am also grateful to Vassilis Lambropoulos , director of Modern Greek Studies at Ohio State University , and to William Murphy of the University of Minnesota Press , both of whom read America's Shadow in manuscript form ...
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... West in the Middle East , not least , the reaffirmation of Iraqi sovereignty against the United States's threat of intervention ; and the emergent threat of nuclear war between India and Pakistan . Indeed , references to the end of ...
... West in the Middle East , not least , the reaffirmation of Iraqi sovereignty against the United States's threat of intervention ; and the emergent threat of nuclear war between India and Pakistan . Indeed , references to the end of ...
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... West and constitutes a variation of the pacification processes of westward expansion . As such it brings with it the ... western , which has functioned to naturalize what one New American- ist has called the American " victory culture ...
... West and constitutes a variation of the pacification processes of westward expansion . As such it brings with it the ... western , which has functioned to naturalize what one New American- ist has called the American " victory culture ...
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... West are not in Greek thought ( the originative thinking that is the imperative of truth as a - letheia : unconcealment ) , as it has been claimed , especially since the invention of what Martin Bernal has called the " Aryan model " in ...
... West are not in Greek thought ( the originative thinking that is the imperative of truth as a - letheia : unconcealment ) , as it has been claimed , especially since the invention of what Martin Bernal has called the " Aryan model " in ...
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