A study of imperialism that stretches from ancient Rome to the
post-Cold War World, this provocative work boldly revises our
assumptions about the genealogy of the West. Rather than locating
its source in classical Greece, William V. Spanos argues, we should
look to ancient Rome, which first articulated the ideas that would
become fundamental to the West's imperial project. These founding
ideas, he claims, have informed the American national identity and
its foreign policy from its origins.
The Vietnam War is at the center of this book. In the
contradiction between the "free world" logic employed to justify
U.S. intervention in Vietnam and the genocidal practices used to
realize that logic, Spanos finds the culmination of an
imperialistic discourse reaching back to the colonizing rationale
of the Roman Empire. Spanos identifies the language of expansion in
the "white" metaphors in Western philosophical discourse since the
colonization of Greek thought by the Romans. He shows how these
metaphors, and their role in metaphysical discourse, have long been
complicit in the violence of imperialism.
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