Beyond Eurocentrism and Anarchy: Memories of International Order and Institutions (Culture and Religion in International Relations)

This book re-evaluates 'international knowledge' in light of recent scholarship in the fields of hermeneutics, ethnography, and historiography regarding the 'non-West', the past, and the present of international society. It offers a view of the present in the form of a critique of Euro-centrism and occidentalist views of the postwar order. "This book reevaluates "international knowledge" in light of recent scholarship in the fields of hermeneutics, ethnography, and historiography regarding the non-West, the past, and the present of international society. Countering the disciplinary skepticism about political possibilities outside of the strictures of modern Western forms, it proposes formulations of power, interest, ethics, and subjectivity by a group of African intellectuals as plausible alternatives to official French and American postwar proposals for world order."--Jacket Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-23 Encounters: Theory, Difference, and Representations....Pages 25-63 Leclerc’s Mosaic: Historicism, Institutionalism, and Memory....Pages 65-102 Félix Adolphe Sylvestre Eboué: Republicanism, Humanism, and their Modulations....Pages 103-145 Gabriel d’Arboussier: Democracy Is Not a Magnificently Adorned Hall....Pages 147-193 Daniel Ouezzin Coulibaly: Descartes Wasn’t Always Right, Diderot Maybe....Pages 195-235 Conclusion....Pages 237-240 Back Matter....Pages 241-283