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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... truth as a - letheia : unconcealment ) , as it has been claimed , especially since the invention of what Martin Bernal has called the " Aryan model " in the period of the Enlightenment . It suggests , rather , that these ori- gins lie ...
... truth as a - letheia : unconcealment ) , as it has been claimed , especially since the invention of what Martin Bernal has called the " Aryan model " in the period of the Enlightenment . It suggests , rather , that these ori- gins lie ...
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... truth " of the Occident . Chapter 4 then undertakes an Auseinandersetzung — an agonistic dialogue with the dominant oppositional discourses , especially the neo - Marxism that identifies postmodernity with the logic of late cap- italism ...
... truth " of the Occident . Chapter 4 then undertakes an Auseinandersetzung — an agonistic dialogue with the dominant oppositional discourses , especially the neo - Marxism that identifies postmodernity with the logic of late cap- italism ...
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... truth that would colonize and pacify " it . " It calls for a rethinking that would , like the Vietnamese Other , refuse to be answerable to the tri- umphant technological / imperial discourse . In so doing , it points in a prologomenal ...
... truth that would colonize and pacify " it . " It calls for a rethinking that would , like the Vietnamese Other , refuse to be answerable to the tri- umphant technological / imperial discourse . In so doing , it points in a prologomenal ...
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... truth discourse I am interrogating . This is not to say that there are no exceptions or that the exceptions are irrelevant . It is to say , rather , that it is first necessary to emphasize the strategic ten- dentiousness of the dominant ...
... truth discourse I am interrogating . This is not to say that there are no exceptions or that the exceptions are irrelevant . It is to say , rather , that it is first necessary to emphasize the strategic ten- dentiousness of the dominant ...
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