European Universalism: The Rhetoric of Power

by Immanuel Wallerstein

Book Overview

How ideas such as civilization and progress have been used as a smoke screen for Western dominance, by the world-renowned sociologist

Ever since the Enlightenment, Western intervention around the world has been justified by appeals to notions of civilization, development, and progress. The assumption has been that such ideas are universal, encrusted in natural law. But, as Immanuel Wallerstein argues in this short and elegant philippic,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1595580611
• ISBN13: 9781595580610
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 7.4"