{"id":19776,"date":"2016-08-23T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/?p=19776"},"modified":"2016-08-21T08:53:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T12:53:02","slug":"fresh-categories-new-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/23\/fresh-categories-new-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Categories, New Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For much of twentieth-century philosophy it is no longer possible to think of Being as foundation, not simply because of the risk that objectivism might lead to a totalitarian society\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto Auschwitz or to the Gulag\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut above all because European culture has become aware that there are other cultures that cannot be merely classi\u00ef\u00ac\u0081ed as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153primitive,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d that is, as lagging behind the West in the way of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153progress.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The 1800s were the century in which the historical sciences, including cultural anthropology, arose: there was a ripe awareness that there was not just a single course of history (culminating in Western civilization) but different cultures and different histories. This awareness would be decisively advanced through the wars of liberation of the colonial nations. Algeria\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s revolt against France as well as the petroleum war of the early 1970s were the last episodes within the theoretical, practical, and political rupture of Eurocentrism, i.e., of the idea of a unique human civilization of which Europe was conceived to be the leader as well as the apex.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&mdash;Gianni Vattimo, <em>After Christianity<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For much of twentieth-century philosophy it is no longer possible to think of Being as foundation, not simply because of the risk that objectivism might lead to a totalitarian society\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto Auschwitz or to the Gulag\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut above all because European culture has become aware that there are other cultures that cannot be merely classi\u00ef\u00ac\u0081ed as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153primitive,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2847,2848,333],"class_list":["post-19776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-eurocentrism","tag-gestalt","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulboccaccio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->