Research Catalog

Title

Eurocentrism : modernity, religion, and democracy : a critique of Eurocentrism and culturalism / Samir Amin ; translated by Russell Moore and James Membrez.

Author

Amin, Samir

Publication

New York, NY : Monthly Review Press, c2009.

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Details

Description

288 p.; 21 cm.

Uniform Title

Eurocentrisme. English

Alternative Title

Eurocentrisme.

Subject

• Eurocentrism > History
• Capitalism > Europe > History
• Europe > Economic conditions
• Europe > Social conditions

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Translation of: L'eurocentrisme.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Modernity and Religious Interpretations -- I. Modernity -- II. Modernity and Religious Interpretations -- III. Political Islam -- 2. Central and Peripheral Tributary Cultures -- I. Introduction -- II. The Formation of Tributary Ideology in the Mediterranean Region -- III. Tributary Culture in Other Regions of the Pre-Capitalist World -- 3. The Culture of Capitalism -- I. Introduction -- II. The Decline of Metaphysics and the Reinterpretation of Religion -- III. The Construction of Eurocentric Culture -- IV. Marxism and the Challenge of Actually Existing Capitalism -- V. The Culturalist Evasion: Provincialism and Fundamentalism -- VI. For a Truly Universal Culture -- 4. Towards a Non-Eurocentric View of History and a Non-Eurocentric Social Theory -- I. The Tributary Mode of Production: The Universal Form of Advanced Pre-Capitalist Societies -- II. European Feudalism: Peripheral Tributary Mode -- III. Mercantilism and the Transition to Capitalism: Unequal Development, Key to the Miracle of European Particularity -- IV. Eurocentrism and the Debate over Slavery -- V. Eurocentrism in the Theory of the Nation -- VI. Actually Existing Capitalism and the Globalization of Value.

ISBN

• 9781583672075 (pbk.)
• 1583672079 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 326466116
• SCSB-12479205

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library