The Myth of the West,Enrico Ferri

-About this book

The Myth of Western Civilization: The West as an Ideological Category and a Political Myth has set for itself two different but complementary targets. The first is to show that what is commonly taken as a historical given, «  »Western Civilization » », is actually an ideological construction that has come to absorb the most disparate of contents. It is a common acceptance to intend Western Civilization as the liberal-democratic way of life and capitalist economy that apply in Euro-America. Many among those who believe in the existence and paramountcy of Western Civilization at the same time sustain that Western Civilization can be traced back at the very dawn of Europe and that, depending on who makes the claim, it can be linked to the birth of Greece and Rome and, successively, to Christianity and democracy, often establishing relationships between these varying cultures. While showing the difficulty of considering them instances of the same historical event, The Myth of the West highlights the essential contribution by civilizations like the Phoenician and the Arab to the development of the classical world and modern Europe.
-CONTENTS

Abstract xv

Chapter 1 The West in the Geographies of the Ideological Imagination 1

1.1.The Globalized West 3

1.2. The West in European history 9

1.3. Multiple and Incompatible Wests 13

1.4. Reactionary and Traditional West 19

1.5. In search of the West 23

Chapter 2 At the Origins of the Myth Persepolis versus Athens 25

2.1. Persepolis versus Athens 25

2.2. From Sardis to Persepolis: A Fire That Raged

for Two Centuries 33

2.3. The Persian model and the « Clash of Civilization » 48

2.4. Europe’s « natural Enemy »: Building the Myth 61

2.5. A legend within a legend: Asian and/or Roman Troy 81

Chapter 3 Is the West Christian, Classic and Democratic? 115

3.1. Christianity and Christianities: The Many Religions of the West 115

3.2. On the Alleged « Classical Roots » of the West 147

3.3. Jerusalem, Athens, Rome: The West’s False Chronologies 170

3.4. Theos, Demos, West: A Troublesome Relationship 231

Conclusive Remarks: On the Futility of a Myth 255

-Caractéristiques

Date de parution:1 janvier 2022

Éditeur ‏ : ‎ Nova Science Publishers Inc

Langue ‏ : ‎ Anglais

N.B de pages ‏ : ‎ 294 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1536188689

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1536188684

Poids de l’article ‏ : ‎ 508 g