Both petitions are built around a rhetorical opposition between civilization and barbarism.
He understood that true culture is always the best answer to barbarism.
That is where the essentialising starts and, in the process, the line between multiculturalism and the new racism (or new barbarism) is often blurred.
It is not true that nothing can resist the barbarism of history.
It is difficult to say whether its five panels portray an epic of progress or of regress into barbarism.
Understood as markers of racialised human difference, barbarism and savagery meant that the (sub)human costs of this profit making enterprise could be dismissed.
Despite official complacency, disquiet about the ' methods of barbarism ' employed in the 1950s as in the 1900s seeped into metropolitan debate.
The works reviewed cover concepts of civilization and barbarism, order and progress which still pepper our modern political discourse.
