Hegel and the Third World
The Making of Eurocentrism in World History
Publication Year: 2010
Published by: Syracuse University Press
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Introduction
In this work, I aim to provide a contribution to the critique of Eurocentrism, with focus on the understanding of world history. I immerse myself deeply in the foundational structure of this Eurocentric knowledge production: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s (1770–1831) philosophy...

3. The Struggle for Recognition: The Dialectic of Lordship and Bondage
Hegel first mentions the germ of what became his famous theory of the struggle for recognition and the ensuing dialectic of lordship and bondage (or mastery and servitude) in an untitled manuscript written in 1802–1803. It was published posthumously as...

6. Africa: The Domain of the Senses
In his philosophy of world history, Hegel defines African existence as one confined in the sphere of natural immediacy. Africa is located in the state of nature, and Africans’ life is fixated at the level of sense-certainty. This level of consciousness represents...

7. The Orient: The Ferment of the Understanding
Hegel provides a blueprint of his views regarding the Oriental world in his piece “Fragments of Historical Studies.” There he describes what he calls “the spirit of the Orientals.” In the trope typical of orientalism, he writes: “The Orientals have...

8. The Greco-Germanic World: The Home of Self-Conscious Reason
We saw in the previous chapters the structure of knowledge that undergirds Hegel’s Eurocentrism as regards the Third World. Th is chapter addresses the Greco-Germanic Geist and the claim of its essential difference from and absolute...
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E-ISBN-13: 9780815651635
E-ISBN-10: 0815651635
Print-ISBN-13: 9780815632498
Print-ISBN-10: 0815632495
Page Count: 424
Publication Year: 2010
OCLC Number: 763750207
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