By all means, don't read Orlando Patteron, FREEDOM. It might convince you that the idea is not so absurd. (Caveat: It's on my "to read" bookshelf)
"For most of human history, and for nearly all of the non-Western owrld prior to Western contact, freedom was, and for many still remains, anything but an obvious or desirable goal... "Indeed, non-Western peoples have thought so little about freedom that most human languages did not even possess a word for the concept before contact with the West. " Stuart Elliott www.ksworkbeat.org Kansas Workbeat http://newappeal.blogspot.com/ My blog www.laborstart.org Labour Start ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walt Byars" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <PEN-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU> Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 3:18 PM Subject: [PEN-L] Books/ articles criticizing this eurocentric idea Hi, can anyone recommend some books or articles criticizing the (absurd sounding) claim that that the idea of political freedom and its desirability were invented in the West and only exists in other cultures because of Western influence (and similar such claims)?
