Name: Occidentalism: A Short History of Anti-Westernism (en Inglés)
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Author: Avishai Margalit; Ian Buruma
ISBN: 9781843542889

portada Occidentalism: A Short History of Anti-Westernism (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Atlantic Books

Autor

Avishai Margalit; Ian Buruma

Categoría

Política y Ciencias Sociales

Año

2005

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

208

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

1843542889

ISBN13

9781843542889

Occidentalism: A Short History of Anti-Westernism (en Inglés)

Avishai Margalit; Ian Buruma (Autor) · Atlantic Books · Tapa Blanda

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Two brilliant scholars at the height of their powers conduct a profound investigation of the history of anti-Western stereotypes - and find their origins in the West itself. In this book, Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit show that the idea of 'the West' in the minds of its self-proclaimed enemies is still largely unexamined and woefully misunderstood. Occidentalism is their groundbreaking investigation of the demonizing fantasies and stereotypes about the Western world that fuel such murderous hatred in others. 'Radical Islam' is generally perceived as a purely Islamic phenomenon, but Buruma and Margalit show that groups like al-Qaeda share key traits with revolutionary movements going back to the early nineteenth century. The same prejudices appear again and again: the soulless Western city-dweller, the sterile Western mind, the machine society, controlled from the centre - often by Jews - pulling the hidden levers of power, like some demonic Wizard of Oz. The anti-Western virus has spread to the Islamic world for a number of reasons, but it is not an exclusively Islamic issue. A work of extraordinary range and erudition, Occidentalism will permanently enlarge our understanding of the world in which we live.