The Rise of Eurocentrism: Anatomy of Interpretation

by Vassilis Lambropoulos

Overview

In the controversy over political correctness, the canon, and the curriculum, the role of Western tradition in a post-modern world is often debated. To clarify what is at stake, Vassilis Lambropoulos traces the ideology of European culture from the Reformation, focusing on a key element of Western tradition: the act of interpretation as a distinct practice of understanding and a civil right. Championed by Protestants insisting on independent interpretation of scripture, this ideal of autonomy ushered in the era of modernity with its essentialist philosophy of universal man and his aesthetic understanding of the world.

Originally published in 1993.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691201801
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	10/08/2019
Series:	The William G. Bowen Series , #5646
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	492
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface: The Rule of Autonomy

Ch. 1 The Rites of Interpretation

The Law of Interpretation

Hebraism and Hellenism

The Exercise of Reason

Aesthetic Faith

The Threat of Paganism

Ch. 2 The Culture of Atonement

The Dialectic of Capitalism

The Covenant of Emancipation

The Science of Myth

The Sin of Assimilation

Ch. 3 Writing the Law

The Spirit and the Letter

History and Exile

The Future of Tradition

The Art of Ruling

Epilegomena to Modernity

Notes

Bibliography

Index

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"The Rise of Eurocentrism is a major work of historical interpretation, astonishing in its range and learning, provocatively original in the way it formulates and chronicles the abiding tension between Hebraism and Hellenism throughout modern culture."—Edward W. Said

Editorial Reviews

"The subject of Vassilis Lambropoulo's ambitious book: the delineation of Hellenic (analytic) as opposed to Hebraic (hermeneutic) mode of thought; and the contest between the two for supremacy in European philosophy and literary criticism."

The Times Literary Supplement

"The subject of Vassilis Lambropoulo's ambitious book: the delineation of Hellenic (analytic) as opposed to Hebraic (hermeneutic) mode of thought; and the contest between the two for supremacy in European philosophy and literary criticism."-- "The Times Literary Supplement"

From the Publisher