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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... William V. Spanos. Also by William V. Spanos The End of Education : Toward Posthumanism Heidegger and Criticism : Retrieving the Cultural Politics of Destruction AMERICA'S SHADOW An Anatomy of Empire William V. Spanos M.
... William V. Spanos. Also by William V. Spanos The End of Education : Toward Posthumanism Heidegger and Criticism : Retrieving the Cultural Politics of Destruction AMERICA'S SHADOW An Anatomy of Empire William V. Spanos M.
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... critics was that of either mentor or provider of a space conducive to their intellectual develop- ment . But in the process of our long relationship the roles have been reversed . This is not to say that they finally " killed the father ...
... critics was that of either mentor or provider of a space conducive to their intellectual develop- ment . But in the process of our long relationship the roles have been reversed . This is not to say that they finally " killed the father ...
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... Cold War oc- casion comes to be seen not simply as continuous with Fukuyama's , but as a more effective imperial global strategy . The utter immunity to criticism of the Clinton administration's " humanitarian " war Introduction xvii.
... Cold War oc- casion comes to be seen not simply as continuous with Fukuyama's , but as a more effective imperial global strategy . The utter immunity to criticism of the Clinton administration's " humanitarian " war Introduction xvii.
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An Anatomy of Empire William V. Spanos. to criticism of the Clinton administration's " humanitarian " war against Serbia in the spring of 1999 — which perfectly enacted the Haassian scenario bears witness to this . In the following ...
An Anatomy of Empire William V. Spanos. to criticism of the Clinton administration's " humanitarian " war against Serbia in the spring of 1999 — which perfectly enacted the Haassian scenario bears witness to this . In the following ...
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... criticism in the aftermath of the Cold War — that is , in the context of the announcement of the Pax Metaphysica ( the end of history ) and the Pax Americana — to the fact that these postmodern / postcolonial discourses , in their ...
... criticism in the aftermath of the Cold War — that is , in the context of the announcement of the Pax Metaphysica ( the end of history ) and the Pax Americana — to the fact that these postmodern / postcolonial discourses , in their ...
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