The New Barbarism and the Modern West : Recognizing an Ethic of Difference.

Intro -- Contents -- 1 Outer Barbarians -- An ethical proposition -- An ethic of difference -- In defense of late modern liberalism -- Barbarism in its cultural specificity -- On the identity: barbarism = nature -- Sentience of nature -- On the Delphic Oracle -- Profaning the Eleusinian Mysteries -- Myth in modernity -- Big Others and other Others -- Applied barbarism -- The barbarian as vanishing subject -- Notes -- 2 Beyond Barbarism, Love -- Alterity or nothing! -- An interruption and reason for love -- A handbook of inward culture for outward barbarians -- Love and duty -- From familial love to the fear of others -- Negation and self-knowledge -- On love lost and getting it back -- Eros as search for the other half -- Divided love, the broken circle, and origins of world alienation -- Love is relational -- Love begins with difference -- Notes -- 3 Barbarism New and Old -- The new savagery -- An ontology of difference -- Knowledge by proxy -- The limits of idealism -- Other than reason -- Being is interdependency -- Reading for perspective -- Notes -- 4 Barbarism and Civilization -- On our barbarism toward nature -- Is nature normal? -- Nature in its absence -- Civilization as conspiracy -- A world without barbarians -- On what is missing -- On the barbarism of reflection -- On exclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

This book of political theory reflects on how cultures imagine their barbarians in the form of essentialized others, focusing specifically on the kinds of barbarism associated with a civilization devoted to technological progress.

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