TY - BOOK AU - Lambropoulos,Vassilis TI - The Rise of Eurocentrism: Anatomy of Interpretation T2 - The William G. Bowen Series SN - 9781400820726 AV - PN441 .L36 1993 U1 - 809/.894 PY - 2020///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Canon (Literature) KW - Eurocentrism KW - History KW - European literature KW - History and criticism KW - Literature KW - Theory, etc KW - HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; PREFACE: THE RULE OF AUTONOMY --; Chapter One. THE RITES OF INTERPRETATION --; Chapter Two. THE CULTURE OF ATONEMENT --; Chapter Three. WRITING THE LAW --; EPILEGOMENA TO MODERNITY --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access N2 - 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. After explaining the dominance of European culture through the combined archetypes of Hebraism (reason and morality) and Hellenism (spirit and art), Lambropoulos shows how the rule of autonomy has been transformed into the aesthetic, disinterested contemplation of things in themselves. Arguing that it is time to restore the socio-political dimension to the movement of autonomy, he proposes that a genealogy of the Hebraic-Hellenic archetypes can help us evaluate more recent models--like the Afrocentric one--and redefine the controversy surrounding education, Eurocentrism, and cultural politics UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400820726?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400820726 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400820726.jpg ER -