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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... wary here of what we could define as the illusion , the mystification , or the complex of Marcellus . - JACQUES DERRIDA , Specters of Marx Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Ontological Origins of Occidental Imperialism.
... wary here of what we could define as the illusion , the mystification , or the complex of Marcellus . - JACQUES DERRIDA , Specters of Marx Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Ontological Origins of Occidental Imperialism.
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... origins in an intense classroom or personal conversation in the process of which the question becomes more important than the partic- ular persons involved . But because I believe deeply that truly productive scholarship , whatever the ...
... origins in an intense classroom or personal conversation in the process of which the question becomes more important than the partic- ular persons involved . But because I believe deeply that truly productive scholarship , whatever the ...
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... origins of the identity of the Occident and encouraged me to pursue it despite its obvious controversial tenor . To William Murphy , I am grateful for his initial and continuing support of my project and , especially , for his acutely ...
... origins of the identity of the Occident and encouraged me to pursue it despite its obvious controversial tenor . To William Murphy , I am grateful for his initial and continuing support of my project and , especially , for his acutely ...
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... 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 discourse- in films , documentaries , histories ...
... 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 discourse- in films , documentaries , histories ...
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... origins of the modern 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 ...
... origins of the modern 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 ...
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