220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
The political and social structures of modernity are dominated by really eurocentric forms and relations, yet the theorisation of the eurocentricity of modernity remains barely developed. At the same time, modern political and social theory is fundamentally eurocentric, yet the critique of eurocentrism remains marginal to marxian and critical realist theory.
Addressing the eurocentrism of both... Read more
Introduction – Eurocentrism, Capitalism and Modernity, Chapter 1 – The emergence of ‘Eurocentrism’: Fragments and Contradictions, Chapter 2 - Anthropocentrism and Europic Universals, Chapter 3 - Marxism and the Europic Problematic, Chapter 4 - The Dual Dialectics of Europic Theory, Chapter 5 - Critique of the Eurocentrism of Civil Society, Chapter 6 - Ethical Economic Symbolic Representation: Eurocentrism and Imaginary Dialectical Universalisation, Chapter 7 – Capital: Marx’s Anti-Europic Theory of Modernity, Conclusion – Eurocentrism, capitalism and the end of modernity (and post-modernity)?
Biography
Nick Hostettler teaches political and social theory and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. He holds a PhD in political theory. His research to date has been concerned with the historical reflexivity of modern political and social theory and the nature of modernity.
