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Hegel and the Third World - The Making of Eurocentrism in World History (Hardcover)
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Hegel and the Third World - The Making of Eurocentrism in World History (Hardcover)
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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 people 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 to
argue 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 Western thought at the time. 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.
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