Hegel and the Third World: The Making of Eurocentrism in World History

by Teshale Tibebu

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815632495
• ISBN13: 9780815632498
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"