Rise of Eurocentrism
Anatomy of Interpretation
In the controversy over political correctness, the canon, and the curriculum, the role of Western tradition in a post-modern world is often debated. To clarify what is at stake, Vassilis Lambropoulos traces the ideology of European culture from the Reformation, focusing on a key element of Western tradition: the act of interpretation as a distinct practice of understanding and a civil right. Championed by Protestants insisting on independent interpretation of scripture, this ideal of autonomy ushered in the era of modernity with its essentialist philosophy of universal man and his aesthetic understanding of the world. After explaining the dom…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4008-2072-6
- EAN: 9781400820726
- Produktnummer: 35948013
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
- Seitenangabe: 492 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 0 KB
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