America's Shadow: An Anatomy of EmpireU of Minnesota Press - 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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... Pax Americana : A Genealogy of the " New World Order " 4. " Theory " and the End of History : Rethinking Postmodernity xi XV 84 64 126 170 5. Thinking in the Interregnum : Prolegomenon to a Spectral Politics 191 Notes 207 Index 273 1 ...
... Pax Americana : A Genealogy of the " New World Order " 4. " Theory " and the End of History : Rethinking Postmodernity xi XV 84 64 126 170 5. Thinking in the Interregnum : Prolegomenon to a Spectral Politics 191 Notes 207 Index 273 1 ...
Pagina xiii
... Pax Americana works in a " developing " country . A much briefer version of chapter 2 was previously published in boundary 2 ; I wish to thank the editor , Paul Bove , and Duke University Press for permission to reprint in this book ...
... Pax Americana works in a " developing " country . A much briefer version of chapter 2 was previously published in boundary 2 ; I wish to thank the editor , Paul Bove , and Duke University Press for permission to reprint in this book ...
Pagina xvi
... American order in the aftermath of the " revolutions " that brought down the communist regimes in Eastern and Central Europe and the Soviet Union . For the end of the Cold War was announced not simply as the Pax Americana , but as the ...
... American order in the aftermath of the " revolutions " that brought down the communist regimes in Eastern and Central Europe and the Soviet Union . For the end of the Cold War was announced not simply as the Pax Americana , but as the ...
Pagina xviii
... American end - of - history discourse . But I wish to make it clear at the beginning that , in doing so , I am referring ... Pax Americana . - The structure of America's Shadow is not intended to articulate a sustained argument . Rather ...
... American end - of - history discourse . But I wish to make it clear at the beginning that , in doing so , I am referring ... Pax Americana . - The structure of America's Shadow is not intended to articulate a sustained argument . Rather ...
Pagina xix
... American technological / instrumentalist reason ( the Pax Metaphysica ) and of liberal capitalist democracy ( the Pax Americana ) in the post - Cold War era . Chapter 2 then undertakes a genealogy of this triumphant modernity that ...
... American technological / instrumentalist reason ( the Pax Metaphysica ) and of liberal capitalist democracy ( the Pax Americana ) in the post - Cold War era . Chapter 2 then undertakes a genealogy of this triumphant modernity that ...
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The Imperial Imperatives of the Centered Circle | 64 |
A Genealogy of the New World Order | 126 |
Rethinking Postmodernity | 170 |
Prolegomenon to a Spectral Politics | 191 |
Notes | 207 |
Index | 273 |
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