after the German collapse in its second edition of 1919. Here he argued from the point of view of bourgeois European culture in favour of saving civilization by a union of European states, including all those other nations whose culture derives directly or indirectly from Europe's. Nicolai's Eurocentrism even went so far that he declared genocide to be understandable in the case of a Mongolian ...

Seth Jacobowitz, in his paper "Watsuji and Deleuze and Guattari in the Climate of Culture," analyzes theories of cultural properties in Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus alongside Watsuji Tetsuro's prewar Climate and Culture. At stake in these investigations is the status of the West as a universalizing particular ratified by these authors in the instance of its own critiq...

This paper aims to show the centrality the concept of progress occupies explicitly and implicitly in social theory, in relation to the theorization and understanding of modernity; it also raises the question whether in times where Eurocentrism, logocentrism, and indeed almost every claim of supremacy are rightly viewed with suspicion, it is possible to think of modernity without relying on some...

Glossary Eurocentrism A way of thinking which assumes that the European experience is the only or the best way of achieving something and that Europe should be the model for other parts of the world to follow. Global North A term derived from the Brandt Commission’s reports in the 1980s which divided the world into two parts: North and South. The Global North encompassed the economically richer...

This paper provides an introduction to the burgeoning field of “history humanities”. It discusses scope, goals, and challenges this new discipline. While histories separate humanities disciplines have been written since early twentieth century, it is only over last decade or so that we witnessed works ask question: how do these fit together form history humanities? After origins development dis...

Globalisation entails the process of production and exchange at planetary level, making world a global village. At epistemic levels, it has been dominated by Eurocentrism Western knowledge paradigms platforms. Characterised asymmetrical superior- inferior relationships between North generally South, in Africa particular, virtually all facets production, utilisation transfer have West. In Africa...