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Ian Buruma

Occidentalism

The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies

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Twenty-five years ago, Edward Said's Orientalism spawned a generation of scholarship on the denigrating and dangerous mirage of the East in the Western colonial mind. But the West is the more dangerous mirage of our own time, Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit argue, and the idea of the West in the minds of its self-proclaimed enemies remains largely unexamined and woefully misunderstood. Occidentalism is their groundbreaking investigation of the demonizing fantasies and stereotypes about the Western world that fuel such hatred in the hearts of others.We generally understand radical Islam as a purely Islamic phenomenon, but Buruma and Margalit s… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Margalit, Avishai
  • ISBN: 978-0-14-303487-2
  • EAN: 9780143034872
  • Produktnummer: 19386242
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
  • Seitenangabe: 176 S.
  • Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.8 cm x D1.4 cm 143 g
  • Gewicht: 143

Über den Autor


Ian Buruma is currently Luce Professor at Bard College. His previous books include God's Dust, Behind the Mask, The Missionary & The Libertine, Playing the Game, The Wages of Guilt, Anglomania, and Bad Elements. He writes frequently for The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, and the Financial Times.Avishai Margalit is Schulman Professor of Philosophy at the Center for Rationality at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His previous books include Idolatry, The Decent Society, Views and Reviews, and The Ethics of Memory.

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