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Contents Preface. Introduction. I. Central and peripheral tributary cultures 1. The formation of tributary ideology in the Mediterranean Region. 2. Tributary culture in other regions of the precapitalist world. II. The culture of capitalism 1. The decline of metaphysics and the reinterpretation of religion. 2. The construction of Eurocentric culture. 3. Marxism and the challenge of actually existing capitalism. 4. The culturalist evasion provincialism and fundamentalism. 5. For a truly universal culture. In this original and provocative essay Samir Amin the author of a number of pathbreaking studies on the structure of the world economy takes on one of the great ideological deformations of our time Eurocentrism. Rejecting the dominant Eurocentric view of world history which narrowly and incorrectly posits a progression from the Greek and Roman classical world to Christian Feudalism and the European capitalist system Amin presents a sweeping reinterpretation that emphasizes the crucial historical role played by the Arab Islamic world. Throughout the work Amin addresses a broad set of concerns ranging for the ideological nature of scholastic metaphysics to the meanings and shortcomings of contemporary Islamic fundamentalism. Consistently subversive of the established pieties of the west this book breaks new theoretical and historiographical ground by outlining a compelling non Eurocentric vision of world history.

In this volume the authors engage in a productive discussion of the history and contemporary dilemmas facing the movement that are variously described as antisystemic, social or popular. The authors believe that these movements. Which have for the past 15 1st ed. 187p., References; 23cm.

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