Gadamer walks through the meaning of these authorities upon the writer as prejudices. Now, as the school of Enlightenment posed, prejudices are caused by all authorities beside the authority to reason, which supposedly, cuts through prejudice in the pursuit of truth. According to Merriam-Webster dictionary the definition for “prejudice” is “an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason; any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable; unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, especially of a hostile nature, regarding an ethnic, racial, social, or religious group.” This idea of prejudice as a sort of prejudgment was considered a negative aspect by the school of Enlightenment,
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“One might say—and this discourse does say—the two races exist whenever one writes the history of two groups, which do not, at least to begin with, have the same language or, in many cases, the same religion. …the only link between them [is] established by the violence of war.” Foucault argues that the foundation for many prejudices in historical text and research today is founded in the racial conflict, and that no matter what similarities the create similarity between a variety of cultures, it would come down to the struggle for power as one race sought out to overpower and control the fate of another race. For his example, Foucault used the conflict between the Roman “history of sovereignty” and Biblical “history of servitude and exiles” to more recent example of the Nazis plans for “State racism” and the “Soviet-style transformation”. Foucault’s argument shapes the idea of textual interpretation to consider the struggle for both power and supremacy among the great societies of the world, and through this, the authority of power and race comes into …show more content…
Huntington summarized the clash of the two great authorities of power the Eastern and Western civilizations and states his opinion of the Western Civilization by stating, “In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.” This concept of the Western culture dominating the Eastern culture has long been present in textual interpretation, especially in European history. Edward W. Said, author of the acclaimed novel Orientalism, addresses this concept of Orientalism as the source of the inaccurate cultural representations of the Eastern Civilization, specifically about the region of the Middle East by Western Civilization thoughts and perceptions. The principal characteristic of Orientalism is a recurrent Eurocentric prejudice against the Arab–Islamic culture , which prejudice derives from Western images that reduce the Orient as “irrational, depraved (fallen), childlike, “different”; thus the European is rational, virtuous, mature, “normal.” This aspect of power and race from Foucault draws directly into Said’s argument, through the idea of the conflict not just in society, however, the legacies of both cultures in
“One might say—and this discourse does say—the two races exist whenever one writes the history of two groups, which do not, at least to begin with, have the same language or, in many cases, the same religion. …the only link between them [is] established by the violence of war.” Foucault argues that the foundation for many prejudices in historical text and research today is founded in the racial conflict, and that no matter what similarities the create similarity between a variety of cultures, it would come down to the struggle for power as one race sought out to overpower and control the fate of another race. For his example, Foucault used the conflict between the Roman “history of sovereignty” and Biblical “history of servitude and exiles” to more recent example of the Nazis plans for “State racism” and the “Soviet-style transformation”. Foucault’s argument shapes the idea of textual interpretation to consider the struggle for both power and supremacy among the great societies of the world, and through this, the authority of power and race comes into …show more content…
Huntington summarized the clash of the two great authorities of power the Eastern and Western civilizations and states his opinion of the Western Civilization by stating, “In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.” This concept of the Western culture dominating the Eastern culture has long been present in textual interpretation, especially in European history. Edward W. Said, author of the acclaimed novel Orientalism, addresses this concept of Orientalism as the source of the inaccurate cultural representations of the Eastern Civilization, specifically about the region of the Middle East by Western Civilization thoughts and perceptions. The principal characteristic of Orientalism is a recurrent Eurocentric prejudice against the Arab–Islamic culture , which prejudice derives from Western images that reduce the Orient as “irrational, depraved (fallen), childlike, “different”; thus the European is rational, virtuous, mature, “normal.” This aspect of power and race from Foucault draws directly into Said’s argument, through the idea of the conflict not just in society, however, the legacies of both cultures in