Re: Western rationality ?

[Michael Hoover <hooverm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> bendien@xxxxxxxxxxxx 11/02/03 8:37 AM >>>
1) "The West" does not exist culturally, it is an ideological fiction or
geographic reference, an ideological concept which hides the reality of
imperialist accumulation. In order to understand this, you should study
the history of geographical mapping, the production of geographical
maps. Then you will see "the West" is an ideological fiction.
Jurriaan
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much as the term 'euro-centric' is problematic (although i agree with
the late geographer Jim Blaut that the concept is the 'colonizer's model
of the world'), certain applications of the term/concept 'west' flattens
the complexity of European/western culture and history's peripheral
regions, social classes, and marginalized and stigmatized peoples...
michael hoover