Hegel and the Third World : the making of eurocentrism in world history

443 Pages·2011·2.958 MB·English

by  Teshale Tibebu.

Hegel and the Third World

H
egel
and the
Third
World
Th e Making of Eurocentrism in World History
Teshale Tibebu
Syracuse University Press
Copyright © 2011 by Syracuse University Press
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quotations from various works by G. W. F. Hegel:
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Hodgson; Cambridge University Press for Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, translated by Hugh B.
Nisbet with an introduction by Duncan Forbes, reprinted with permission of Cambridge University Press; Dover
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ISBN: 978-0-8156-3249-8
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Teshale Tibebu.
Hegel and the Th ird World : the making of eurocentrism in world history /
Teshale Tibebu. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 355) and index.
ISBN 978-0-8156-3249-8 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770–1831. 2. History—Philosophy.
3. Eurocentrism. I. Title.
D16.8.T427 2010
901—dc22 2010045184
Manufactured in the United States of America
Teshale Tibebu is associate professor of history at Temple Uni-
versity in Philadelphia. He has a B.A. degree from Addis Ababa
University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees
from Binghamton University. He is author of Th e Making of
Modern Ethiopia, 1896–1974 (1995), Hegel and Anti-Semitism
(2008), and several articles published in scholarly journals.

Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xi
1. Th e Hegel Controversy 1
Part One: Dialectic of Nature and Spirit
2. Nature and Spirit 25
3. Th e Struggle for Recognition: Th e Dialectic of Lordship
and Bondage 42
4. Race, Gender, and Class 74
Part Two: Philosophy of History
5. Philosophy of History 133
6. Africa: Th e Domain of the Senses 171
7. Th e Orient: Th e Ferment of the Understanding 230
8. Th e Greco-Germanic World: Th e Home
of Self-Conscious Reason 297
Conclusion 324
References 355
Index 375