... What is significant, then, about Derrida's broad decentering of the centered structure is the contemporaneity he notes between the decentering of Western metaphysics and the dislocation of European culture from its position as the "culture of reference" (SSP 285). Indeed, "the history of metaphysics, like the history of the West [italics mine], is the history of- "a series of substitutions ... of center for center- (SSP 279). Like metaphysics, Western ethnocentrism is a centered structure on the basis of which other cultures are represented as inferior (not substitutable for Western...

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The traditional cultural values of Western society are deteriorating under the influences of corporate politics, the commercialization of culture, and the impact of mass media. With society's dependence on television entertainment, it has found itself controlled by the oppressive power of corporate consumerism through both commercials and regularly scheduled ... ...

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