IDEAS in AGORA: The Philosophy of the Empires, Fear and Sense of Exemplarity

• Authors: Korstanje Maximiliano
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Why do the United States reserve the right to be called “America” by conferring the “Americas” to the whole continent?, is that a clear sign of discrimination or supremacy or both? Ideologically, America refers to the United States of “America” excluding other regions such as Latin America, central or South America. This leads some scholars to explain convincingly that, beyond this subtle grammatical difference, the Anglo-ethnocentrism in the United States has been drawn to make their citizens believe they are unique, outstanding, and special. Basically, this belief allowed not only to fight against the political enemies in Europe or in any other geographical point, but also to control the incipient worker union leaderships. What merits further attention, anyway, is the sentiment of exemplarity instilled by the founding parents of this nation. Fear was historically a mechanism of control employed by US governments at different stages in several ways. Our intention is not only to review how the fear disciplined by the claims of work-force, but also explain why the sentiment of exemplarity and fear are inextricably intertwined.

Keywords

EN

Fear; Americanism; Exemplarity; Conflicts; Radical Philosophy

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human and Social Studies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 3
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 11-33

Dates

published

2014-06-01

online

2015-02-06

Contributors

author

Korstanje Maximiliano

• International Society for Philosophers, Sheffield, UK

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/hssr-2013-0027