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Hegel and the Third World
Teshale Tibebu
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Description for Hegel and the Third World
Hardcover. Num Pages: 424 pages, notes, references, index. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 739.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
739g
Number of Pages
409
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815632498
SKU
V9780815632498
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About Teshale Tibebu
Teshale Tibebu is associate professor in the History Department at Temple University. He is the author of The Making of Modern Ethiopia, 1896-1974, Hegel and Anti-Semitism, and numerous articles.
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