The construction of civilizational difference is not exclusive in any simple sense. The de-essentialization of Islam is paradigmatic for all thinking about the assimilation of non-European peoples to European civilization. The idea that people's historical experience is inessential to them, that it can be shed at will, makes it possible to argue more strongly for the Enlightenment's claim to universality: Muslims, as members of the abstract category "humans," can be assimilated or (as some recent theorist have put it) "translated" into a global ("European") civilization once they have divested themselves of what many of them regard (mistakenly) as essential to themselves. The belief that human beings can be separated from their histories and traditions makes it possible to urge a Europeanization of the Islamic world. And by the same logic, it underlies the belief that the assimilation to Europe's civilization of Muslim immigrants who are--for good or for ill--already in European states is necessary and desirable.
Tag: christianity islam europe pluralism eurabia multiculturalism european modernity-tags-civilization
It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.
Elizabeth KostovaTag: dark fiction horror dracula atmospheric historical vampire historian european moody vlad-the-impaler
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
Alfred North WhiteheadTag: philosophy influence tradition plato european
I saw him enthusiastically greet a hulking big African American (Do they call them African Americans here?).
Brett Kiellerop-MorrisTag: black african-american european
You alone in Europe are not ancient oh Christianity
The most modern European is you Pope Pius X
And you whom the windows observe shame keeps you
From entering a church and confessing this morning
You read the prospectuses the catalogues the billboards that sing aloud
That's the poetry this morning and for the prose there are the newspapers
There are the 25 centime serials full of murder mysteries
Portraits of great men and a thousand different headlines
("Zone")
Tag: words poetry church advertising language mysteries confession prose newspapers europe city modernity text european catalogs mystery-novels billboard headlines pope-pius-x
...the art of Europe is drowned in the centuries in the war-scarred face of a motherland..
John GeddesAnd Philippe won't speak English. She's sure he can - he's got that European je ne sais quoi that usually means "Oh, I speak six languages. And a little Japanese.
Ellen SussmanWhite, is not a race, it is a color, European, is not a race, it is a place named after the goddess Europa. Caucasian, is not a race, it is a place and mountain range. Gentile, is not a race, it is a biblical name that was given to describe Aryans as non-Jews. Aryan is the biological correct name of our race! Aryan is who we are by blood and the genetic source of our being and beginning. All the numerous names, German, French, Irish, Scotch, Polish, Italian, Norwegian and on and on are simply the many tribal names of the Aryan people.
Ron McVanTag: race european caucasian aryan pg-11
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