{"id":3100,"date":"2017-11-03T04:07:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T01:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aeneas.byzantinewalls.org\/?p=177"},"modified":"2020-10-04T11:35:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T08:35:14","slug":"what-is-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/3100\/what-is-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the &#8220;West?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is this &#8220;Western&#8221; civilization which is our own? What are the characteristics that define it vis-\u00e0-vis others? Are these characteristics proper to its own nature, or are they also found elsewhere?<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2vfyovT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/41LOjCaVUYL._SX298_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" style=\"border:none;\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nPhilippe Nemo attempts to answer these questions. To him, the &#8220;West&#8221; is the sum of five essential characteristics, not necessarily proper to it each by themselves, but uniquely combined and working together in what would eventually become Western civilization.<\/p>\n<p>What is essential in Nemo&#8217;s theory is the fact that civilizations develop in an immanent frame &#8211;immanent here taken in the sense that what is important is not so much outside influences and ideas, but rather an internal dynamic proper to each civilization.<\/p>\n<p>Presented here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.actu-philosophia.com\/spip.php?article51\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in French<\/a>. The book is now <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2vfyovT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">translated in English<\/a>. A presentation and review is also available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/4293\/philippe-nemo-and-the-western-identity\/\">in English<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is this &#8220;Western&#8221; civilization which is our own? What are the characteristics that define it vis-\u00e0-vis others? Are these characteristics proper to its own nature, or are they also found elsewhere? &nbsp; Philippe Nemo attempts to answer these questions. To him, the &#8220;West&#8221; is the sum of five essential characteristics, not necessarily proper to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_disable_autopaging":false},"categories":[6608,6599,6591,46,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-european-union","category-history","category-philosophy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}