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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... idea of America that res- onated backward to the origins of this exceptionalist national self - image in the Puritan " errand in the wilderness . " One of the central motifs that emerged in the process of examining this representational ...
... idea of America that res- onated backward to the origins of this exceptionalist national self - image in the Puritan " errand in the wilderness . " One of the central motifs that emerged in the process of examining this representational ...
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... idea of liberal capi- talist democracy remains intact in his discourse . That is , his commitment to the " laissez - faire " polity ( deregulation ) — to the fictional concept of the sovereign subject — continues to be grounded in the ...
... idea of liberal capi- talist democracy remains intact in his discourse . That is , his commitment to the " laissez - faire " polity ( deregulation ) — to the fictional concept of the sovereign subject — continues to be grounded in the ...
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... idea of the West I am try- ing to put back into play — that its imperial origins lie in the Roman reduction of an originative thinking ( a - letheia ) to a derivative and calcu- lative ( metaphysical ) thinking that would facilitate its ...
... idea of the West I am try- ing to put back into play — that its imperial origins lie in the Roman reduction of an originative thinking ( a - letheia ) to a derivative and calcu- lative ( metaphysical ) thinking that would facilitate its ...
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