{"product_id":"hegel-and-the-third-world-the-making-of-eurocentrism-in-world-history-9780815632498","title":"Hegel and the Third World: The Making of Eurocentrism in World History","description":"\u003cp\u003eHegel, more than any other modern Western philosopher, produced the most systematic case for the superiority of Western white Protestant bourgeois modernity. He established a racially structured ladder of gradation of the peoples of the world, putting Germanic people at the top of the racial pyramid, people of Asia in the middle, and Africans and Indigenous people of the Americas and Pacific Islands at the bottom. In Hegel and the Third World Tibebu guides the reader through Hegel's presentation on universalism to argue that such a classification flows in part from Hegel's philosophy of the development of human consciousness. Hegel classified Africans as people arrested at the lowest and most immediate stage of consciousness, that of the senses; Asians as people with divided consciousness, that of the understanding; and Europeans as people of reason. Tibebu demonstrates that Hegel's views were not his alone but reflected the fundamental beliefs of other major figures of Western thought at the time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith detailed analysis and thorough research \u003ci\u003eHegel and the Third World\u003c\/i\u003e challenges the central idea of Hegel's philosophy of history: progress. In addition, Tibebu succeeds in providing a fascinating critique of the Western philosopher's rationalization of the gradual decline suffered by the people of the Third World in the context of modern world history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Teshale Tibebu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.40w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815632498","brand":"Syracuse University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46021864718473,"sku":"9780815632498","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_0d61ef2c-b4bb-4cf9-bd3e-f1f2f2691bb2.jpg?v=1777409010","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/hegel-and-the-third-world-the-making-of-eurocentrism-in-world-history-9780815632498","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}