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Europocentrizmo Ideologijos Virsmai Vakarų Filosofijoje
The Transformations of an Eurocentric Ideology in the Western Philosophy

Author(s): Žilvinas Vareikis
Subject(s): Social Philosophy, Culture and social structure , Social differentiation, Globalization
Published by: Visuomeninė organizacija »LOGOS«
Keywords: Ethnocentricity; eurocentrism; romanticism; racism; ideology; intercultural philosophy;

Summary/Abstract: The object of the article is the transformations of ideological and Weltanschauungs attitudes linked with the Eurocentric problem in Western philosophy. The author explicates the processes of hyperbolization of European culture and of hiperbolization of the Western scientific methodology in respect to different cultural researches. The article utilizes diverse interdisciplinary and comparativistic strategies which are applied in an analysis of complicated theoretical variations of the Eurocentric problem.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 83
  • Page Range: 191-194
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Lithuanian