TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferri,Enrico
TI  - The myth of Western Civilization: the West as an ideological category and a political myth 
T2  - Political science and history
SN  - 9781536188943
AV  - CB245 .M984 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Nova Science Publishers
KW  - Civilization, Western
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Middle Eastern influences
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; The West in the Geographies of the Ideological Imagination --; At the Origins of the Myth: Persepolis versus Athens --; Is the West Christian, Classic and Democratic? --; Conclusion: On the Futility of a Myth; 2; b
N2  - "The Myth of Western Civilization: The West as an Ideological Category and a Political Myth has set for itself two different but complementary targets. The first is to show that what is commonly taken as a historical given, "Western Civilization", is actually an ideological construction that has come to absorb the most disparate of contents. It is a common acceptance to intend Western Civilization as the liberal-democratic way of life and capitalist economy that apply in Euro-America. Many among those who believe in the existence and paramountcy of Western Civilization at the same time sustain that Western Civilization can be traced back at the very dawn of Europe and that, depending on who makes the claim, it can be linked to the birth of Greece and Rome and, successively, to Christianity and democracy, often establishing relationships between these varying cultures. While showing the difficulty of considering them instances of the same historical event, The Myth of the West highlights the essential contribution by civilizations like the Phoenician and the Arab to the development of the classical world and modern Europe"--
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