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European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power

European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power

Wallerstein, Immanuel

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1595580611
ISBN13: 9781595580610
Publisher: New Press
Published: Jun 1 2006
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.64 Depth: 7.36
Language: English
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 supposed to be both beneficial to humankind and historically inevitable.

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