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 xvii
... continues to be grounded in the metaphysics that informed America's global errand in the " wilderness " of Southeast Asia . Indeed , Haass gives this representational framework far more his- torical power than Fukuyama's disciplinary ...
... continues to be grounded in the metaphysics that informed America's global errand in the " wilderness " of Southeast Asia . Indeed , Haass gives this representational framework far more his- torical power than Fukuyama's disciplinary ...
Pagina xviii
... continues to evoke — such a frantically sustained will to forget it . This book , therefore , constitutes an effort or , rather , a series of es- says ( in the root sense of the word ) to answer this question . It is not simply intended ...
... continues to evoke — such a frantically sustained will to forget it . This book , therefore , constitutes an effort or , rather , a series of es- says ( in the root sense of the word ) to answer this question . It is not simply intended ...
Pagina xix
... suggests that this Roman colonization of Greek thinking had and continues to have as its fundamental project eruditio et institutio in bonas artes ( scholarship and training in good conduct ) , that is , the Introduction xix.
... suggests that this Roman colonization of Greek thinking had and continues to have as its fundamental project eruditio et institutio in bonas artes ( scholarship and training in good conduct ) , that is , the Introduction xix.
Pagina xx
... continue to resist in the very techno- logical / instrumentalist language prescribed by the triumphant imperial culture . Finally , chapter 5 returns , in the form of a " repetition , " to the imperatives for thought disclosed by my ...
... continue to resist in the very techno- logical / instrumentalist language prescribed by the triumphant imperial culture . Finally , chapter 5 returns , in the form of a " repetition , " to the imperatives for thought disclosed by my ...
Pagina xxi
... continues to disable oppositional criticism of the polyvalent Western imperial project . - The objection I am anticipating has been recently — and instruc- tively leveled against Edward Said's inaugural Orientalism by his belated ...
... continues to disable oppositional criticism of the polyvalent Western imperial project . - The objection I am anticipating has been recently — and instruc- tively leveled against Edward Said's inaugural Orientalism by his belated ...
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