By Samir Amin
ISBN-10: 1583672079
ISBN-13: 9781583672075
Since its first booklet two decades in the past, Eurocentrism has develop into a vintage of radical concept. Written by way of one of many world's prime political economists, this unique and provocative essay takes on one of many nice "ideological deformations" of our time: Eurocentrism. Rejecting the dominant Eurocentric view of global background, which narrowly and incorrectly posits a development from the Greek and Roman classical international to Christian feudalism and the eu capitalist method, Amin provides a sweeping reinterpretation that emphasizes the an important ancient function performed by way of the Arab Islamic global. during the paintings, Amin addressesa large set of matters, starting from the ideological nature of scholastic metaphysics to the meanings and shortcomingsof modern Islamic fundamentalism. This moment variation encompasses a new advent and concluding bankruptcy, either one of which make the author's arguments much more compelling.
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It would have been more convincing to recognize directly the decisive contri butions of so many “Jewish” thinkers to the progress of Europe. The quotation marks are used here simply because modern culture is nei ther Christian nor Judeo-Christian: it is bourgeois. Reason moves from the field dominated by the old debate (the rec onciliation of faith, or a religion, and reason) to situate itself on a ter rain that ignores religion. Modern thinkers, then, are fundamentally neither Christian nor Jewish, they are bourgeois, or beyond that, socialist, although they might be of Christian or Jewish origin.
By definition, communitarianism is part and parcel of the context of widespread racism, which it fights on its own ground, but nothing more. The combination specific to the historical formation of American society, a dominant biblical religious ideology and the absence of a workers’ party, ultimately produced a still unparalleled situation, in which a de facto single party, the party of capital, holds the reigns. Today, American democracy is the advanced model of what I call low intensity democracy.
In this respect, Islam has presented itself as the religion revealed to humani ty from the very beginning in as much as it was revealed to Adam him self. Islam must, then, always have existed even before God spoke through the Prophet Mohammed. It was either forgotten or misunder stood by some peoples (polytheism) or only partially understood by the others (Jews and Christians). It is easier, then, to understand the importance that Muslims, or some of them, give to a strange debate. There are many writings, not regarded as heretical by the authorities who proclaim themselves to be “the” keepers of Islam, that attempt to prove that Abraham was not a Jew but an Arab.