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 v
... your labors to haunt us all until the justice you struggled in your teaching and practice to bring to pass with the passion of a great soul is realized in this mendacious and unjust world . Thou art a scholar ; speak to it , Horatio.
... your labors to haunt us all until the justice you struggled in your teaching and practice to bring to pass with the passion of a great soul is realized in this mendacious and unjust world . Thou art a scholar ; speak to it , Horatio.
Pagina xii
... practiced the thought of justice to which most of us in the academy only pay lip service . Parts of this book were presented as lectures at the University of Trento in Italy , at the University of Thessaloniki , at the University of ...
... practiced the thought of justice to which most of us in the academy only pay lip service . Parts of this book were presented as lectures at the University of Trento in Italy , at the University of Thessaloniki , at the University of ...
Pagina xviii
... practice presided over by the United States . I mean by this — in keeping with the unex- ceptionalist ( i.e. , European ) imperial origins of " America " disclosed by a genealogical reading of the American canonical tradition — the Pax ...
... practice presided over by the United States . I mean by this — in keeping with the unex- ceptionalist ( i.e. , European ) imperial origins of " America " disclosed by a genealogical reading of the American canonical tradition — the Pax ...
Pagina xix
... practice of imperialism proper throughout the history of the Occident . In the process of analyzing these metaphori- cal systems , this chapter distinguishes between the historically specific imperial uses to which the Occident has put ...
... practice of imperialism proper throughout the history of the Occident . In the process of analyzing these metaphori- cal systems , this chapter distinguishes between the historically specific imperial uses to which the Occident has put ...
Pagina xx
... practice , " 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 ...
... practice , " 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 ...
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a-letheia Aeneid allotrope barbarians binary called capitalist circle classical Cold War colonization consciousness constitutes context critique democracy Derrida differential disciplinary dominant Empire enabled end of history end-of-history discourse Enlightenment essential Europe European Foucault fundamental genealogy global Greece Greek haunts hegemony Heidegger's Herodotus historically specific humanist identity ideological imperial project intellectual invisible invoke Jacques Derrida language liberal liberal democracy logic logos Martin Heidegger Marx metaphorics metaphysical Michel Foucault Moby-Dick modern narrative occasion Occident Occidental oikoumene ontological ontotheological tradition opposition origins overdetermination panoptic Parmenides Pax Americana philosophy political polyvalent post-Cold postcolonial postcolonial criticism postmodern practice precipitated reconstellating referring reifying relay representation represented resistance resonant retrieval rhetoric Roman Rome Said's simply sociopolitical space spatial specter Specters of Marx spectral strategy structure suggests symptomatic T. S. Eliot temporal theory thinking thought tion trans University Press Vietnam Vietnam War Vietnamese violence Virgil Western words World Order York