surely some kind of world-view

>From the article:
"On the other hand, they are explicitly working toward a new, constructed European identity, which must surely be some kind of world-view. They are offering Europe as a preliminary sketch for a future world government, as does the draft European constitution advanced by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, the former President of France."

These might be questions that only John is well-versed enough to answer, but does "Eurocentrism" necessarily mean Europe, or might it connote something more general like values and beliefs traditionally called Western?

Is an alliance between Habermas and Derrida possibly suggestive of a subjective shift in which societies are deemeed more normatively tasteful (to deconstructionists), not because of fundamental philosophy but because of their political positions? The U.S. and Britain will be left to apologize alone for Eurocentrism? Ironic, dontcha think?

luke

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