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1 online resource (xxviii, 409 pages) |
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The Hegel controversy -- Nature and spirit -- The struggle for recognition : the dialectic of lordship and bondage -- Race, gender, and class -- Philosophy of history -- Africa : the domain of the senses -- The Orient : the ferment of the understanding -- The Greco-Germanic world : the home of self-conscious reason |
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Hegel, More Than any Other modern Western philosopher, produced the most systematic case for the superiority of Western white Protestant bourgeois modernity. He established a racially structured ladder of gradation of the peoples of the world, putting Germanic people at the top of the racial pyramid, people of Asia in the middle, and Africans and Indigenous peoples of the Americas and Pacific Islands at the bottom. In Hegel and the Third World, Tibebu guides the reader through Hegel's presentation on universalism and argues that such a classification flows in part from Hegel's philosophy of the development of human consciousness. Hegel classified Africans as people arrested at the lowest and most immediate stage of consciousness, that of the senses; Asians as people with divided consciousness, that of the understanding; and Europeans as people of reason. Tibebu demonstrates that Hegel's views were not his alone but reflected the fundamental beliefs of other major figures of |
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Western thought at the time |
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With detailed analysis and thorough research, Hegel and the Third World challenges the central idea of Hegel's philosophy of history: progress. In addition, Tibebu succeeds in providing a fascinating critique of the Western philosopher's rationalization of the gradual decline suffered by the people of the Third World in the context of modern world history. --Book Jacket |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831 fast |
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1770-1831 gnd |
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Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. idszbz |
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History -- Philosophy.
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Eurocentrism.
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HISTORY -- General.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Eurocentrism
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History -- Philosophy
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Eurozentrismus
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Eurozentrismus.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780815651635 |
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0815651635 |
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