The Decline of Western Civilization Seen through the Lens of the East: The Orientalism of Vicente Risco
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This article underlines the importance that the knowledge of Eastern civilizations had in the critique of European modernity that conservative intellectuals developed during the first decades of the twentieth century. The article focuses on the figure of the Galician thinker Vicente Risco (1884–1963), who tried to find in the traditional religions of India possible solutions to overcome the spiritual shortcomings of a rationalism excessively focused on scientific and material progress. Although Risco is a much-studied figure as one of the main ideologists of Galician nationalism, his importance as a researcher of the Orient has been neglected. However, his position as an Orientalist from a corner of the European continent provides a vision of Asia very different from that of the great British, German and French Orientalists. His Orientalism cannot be interpreted as a Said-like discourse of power. Rather, his figure represents a large group of thinkers critical of the imperialism of the Western powers and the model of modernity they embodied. In this “war against modernity,” they found in the East an ally from whom much could be learned and with whom it was necessary to dialogue. From this perspective, the article attempts to overcome Manichean views of East and West as opposing entities with conflicting values, pointing instead to the commonalities that united thinkers from different cultures in their struggle against an idea of progress that was considered immoral, empty and constricting.
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This article underlines the importance that the knowledge of Eastern civilizations had in the critique of European modernity that conservative intellectuals developed during the first decades of the twentieth century. The article focuses on the figure of the Galician thinker Vicente Risco (1884–1963), who tried to find in the traditional religions of India possible solutions to overcome the spiritual shortcomings of a rationalism excessively focused on scientific and material progress. Although Risco is a much-studied figure as one of the main ideologists of Galician nationalism, his importance as a researcher of the Orient has been neglected. However, his position as an Orientalist from a corner of the European continent provides a vision of Asia very different from that of the great British, German and French Orientalists. His Orientalism cannot be interpreted as a Said-like discourse of power. Rather, his figure represents a large group of thinkers critical of the imperialism of the Western powers and the model of modernity they embodied. In this “war against modernity,” they found in the East an ally from whom much could be learned and with whom it was necessary to dialogue. From this perspective, the article attempts to overcome Manichean views of East and West as opposing entities with conflicting values, pointing instead to the commonalities that united thinkers from different cultures in their struggle against an idea of progress that was considered immoral, empty and constricting.
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