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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812164603321

Autore

Hostettler Nick

Titolo

Eurocentrism : a Marxian critical realist critique / / Nick Hostettler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-135-18131-4

0-203-86190-6

1-283-86256-5

1-135-18132-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (218 p.)

Collana

Ontological explorations

Disciplina

306.2094

Soggetti

Eurocentrism

Political science - Europe - Philosophy

Socialism - Philosophy

Political sociology

Civilization, Modern - European influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-199) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Eurocentrism, capitalism and modernity -- Fragments and contradictions of an emergent concept -- Anthropocentrism and Europic universals -- Marxism and the Europic problematic -- The dual dialectics of Europic theory -- Critique of the Eurocentrism of civil society -- Ethical economic symbolic representation: Eurocentrism and imaginary dialectical universalisation -- Capital: Marx's anti-Europic theory of modernity -- Conclusion: Eurocentrism, capitalism and the end of modernity (and post-modernity)?.

Sommario/riassunto

The political and social structures of modernity are dominated by really eurocentric forms and relations, yet the theorisation of the eurocentricity of modernity remains barely developed. At the same time, modern political and social theory is fundamentally eurocentric, yet the critique of eurocentrism remains marginal to marxian and critical realist theory. Addressing the eurocentrism of both modernity and modern theory, Eurocentrism: A Marxian Critical Realist Critique discloses the deeply embedded constraints it imposes on historical and



social reflexivity. Building