Shadia B. Drury

Chauvinism of the West (eBook, PDF)

The Case of American Exceptionalism

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Produktbeschreibung

Ever since the triumph of Christianity over Roman civilization, the cyclical view of history was replaced with a conception of history as the unfolding of a grand plan. Far from rejecting the tropes of Christianity, Enlightenment philosophers presented them in a secular guise by providing intoxicating accounts of the West as lifting humanity out of its primitive slumber and leading it toward freedom, self-government, and self-actualization. This grand narrative is at the heart of American exceptionalism. At the end of the Cold War, when the United States emerged as the sole superpower, she started to think in terms of her exceptionalism. This pseudo-theological thinking led her astray. This book is a critical analysis of the political theories that have contributed to the blunders of American foreign policy since the end of the Cold War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 273
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783031685545
• Artikelnr.: 71800387

Autorenporträt

Shadia Drury is Professor Emerita at the University of Regina, and was formerly the Canada Research Chair in Social Justice. She has been a regular op-ed contributor to Free Inquiry since 2003.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: The Roots of American Exceptionalism.- Chapter 2: Manifest Destiny Goes Global.- Chapter 3: What's Wrong With Spreading Democracy?.- Chapter 4: Neoconservative Realism.- Chapter 5: Fascist Elements in Neoconservative Realism.- Chapter 6: American Exceptionalism and Foreign Policy.