European Universalism The Rhetoric of Power

Name: European Universalism The Rhetoric of Power
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ISBN: 9781595580610

ISBN-10: 1595580611

ISBN-13: 9781595580610

Edition: 2006

Authors: Immanuel Wallerstein

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How ideas such as civilization and progress have been used as a smoke screen for western dominance, by the world-renowned sociologist. Ever since the Enlightenment, Western intervention around the world has been justified by appeals to notions of civilization, development, and progress. The assumption has been that such ideas are universal, encrusted in natural law. But, as Immanuel Wallerstein argues in this short and elegant philippic, these concepts are, in fact, not global. Rather, their genesis is firmly rooted in European thought and their primary function has been to provide justification for powerful states to impose their will against the weak under the smoke screen of what is…

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List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: New Press, The
Publication date: 6/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 5.16" wide x 7.45" long x 0.35" tall
Weight: 0.242

Immanuel Wallerstein has been a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University since 2000, having taught previously at many distinguished universities. Among his many books, he is the author of the magisterial 4-volume work, The Modern World System. Volume IV is recently published.



Introduction : the politics of universalism today



Whose right to intervene? : universal rights against barbarism



Can one be a non-orientalist? : essentalist particularism



How do we know the truth? : scientific universalism



The power of ideas, the ideas of power : to give and to receive?