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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... retrenchments that con- ceal a reactionary ideological agenda has been redemptive . Not least , I want to express my gratitude to my graduate student Assimina Kar- xi avanta , whose knowledge about and uncanny feel for things.
... retrenchments that con- ceal a reactionary ideological agenda has been redemptive . Not least , I want to express my gratitude to my graduate student Assimina Kar- xi avanta , whose knowledge about and uncanny feel for things.
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... ideological implications of the American culture industry's inordinate overdetermination of an idea of America that ... ideological function . It was an appropriation by the ideological state apparatuses that , in keeping with the Cold ...
... ideological implications of the American culture industry's inordinate overdetermination of an idea of America that ... ideological function . It was an appropriation by the ideological state apparatuses that , in keeping with the Cold ...
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... ideology informing its celebration of the global " triumph " of liberal capitalist democracy , but also to retrieve the Vietnam War that this dis- course is compelled to obliterate in order to legitimize its claim that the triumph of ...
... ideology informing its celebration of the global " triumph " of liberal capitalist democracy , but also to retrieve the Vietnam War that this dis- course is compelled to obliterate in order to legitimize its claim that the triumph of ...
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... ideological depths of the West's perennial power , that has dis- abled and continues to disable oppositional criticism of the polyvalent Western imperial project . - The objection I am anticipating has been recently — and instruc ...
... ideological depths of the West's perennial power , that has dis- abled and continues to disable oppositional criticism of the polyvalent Western imperial project . - The objection I am anticipating has been recently — and instruc ...
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