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oapen-20.500.12657-257842021-11-12T16:07:29Z Europe (in theory) Dainotto, Roberto M. Philosophy Europe Theory Culture Politics Eurocentrism Imperialism bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy::HPS Social & political philosophy Europe (in Theory) is an innovative analysis of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ideas about Europe that continue to inform thinking about culture, politics, and identity today. Drawing on insights from subaltern and postcolonial studies, Roberto M. Dainotto deconstructs imperialism not from the so-called periphery but from within Europe itself. He proposes a genealogy of Eurocentrism that accounts for the way modern theories of Europe have marginalized the continent’s own southern region, portraying countries including Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal as irrational, corrupt, and clan-based in comparison to the rational, civic-minded nations of northern Europe. Dainotto argues that beginning with Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Laws (1748), Europe not only defined itself against an “Oriental” other but also against elements within its own borders: its South. 2019-03-08 23:55 2020-03-10 03:00:35 2020-04-01T10:49:20Z 2020-04-01T10:49:20Z 2007-01-01 book 1004305 OCN: 1055302663 9780822389620 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25784 eng application/pdf n/a 1004305.pdf Duke University Press 10.1215/9780822389620 102089 10.1215/9780822389620 f0d6aaef-4159-4e01-b1ea-a7145b2ab14b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780822389620 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Durham, NC 102089 KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Europe (in Theory) is an innovative analysis of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ideas about Europe that continue to inform thinking about culture, politics, and identity today. Drawing on insights from subaltern and postcolonial studies, Roberto M. Dainotto deconstructs imperialism not from the so-called periphery but from within Europe itself. He proposes a genealogy of Eurocentrism that accounts for the way modern theories of Europe have marginalized the continent’s own southern region, portraying countries including Greece, Italy, Spain, and Portugal as irrational, corrupt, and clan-based in comparison to the rational, civic-minded nations of northern Europe. Dainotto argues that beginning with Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Laws (1748), Europe not only defined itself against an “Oriental” other but also against elements within its own borders: its South.
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