Culture and Eurocentrism

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Human Geography, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Political Science
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Author: Qadri Ismail ISBN: 9781783486359
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International Publication: October 30, 2015
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield International Language: English
Author: Qadri Ismail
ISBN: 9781783486359
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
Publication: October 30, 2015
Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield International
Language: English

The conviction that we all have, possess or inhabit a discrete culture, and have done so for centuries, is one of the more dominant default assumptions of our contemporary politico-intellectual moment. However, the concept of culture as a signifier of subjectivity only entered the modern Anglo-U.S. episteme in the late nineteenth century. Culture and Eurocentrism seeks to account for the term’s relatively recent emergence and movement through the episteme, networked with many other concepts – nature, race, society, imagination, savage, and civilization– at the confluence of several disciplines. Culture, it contends, doesn’t describe difference but produces it, hierarchically. In so doing, it seeks to recharge postcoloniality, the critique of eurocentrism.

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The conviction that we all have, possess or inhabit a discrete culture, and have done so for centuries, is one of the more dominant default assumptions of our contemporary politico-intellectual moment. However, the concept of culture as a signifier of subjectivity only entered the modern Anglo-U.S. episteme in the late nineteenth century. Culture and Eurocentrism seeks to account for the term’s relatively recent emergence and movement through the episteme, networked with many other concepts – nature, race, society, imagination, savage, and civilization– at the confluence of several disciplines. Culture, it contends, doesn’t describe difference but produces it, hierarchically. In so doing, it seeks to recharge postcoloniality, the critique of eurocentrism.

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