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Occidentalism: The West in the
Eyes of its Enemies Ian Buruma & Avishai Margalit |
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This "Grandly Illuminating
Study" of two centuries of anti-Western ideas" (Foreign Affairs)
traces the historical roots of a virulent set of stereotypes about Westerners
and the West, a cluster of notions and prejudices that Ian Buruma and Avishai
Margalit call Occidentalism. The path does not lead back to Islam but, in
fact, back to the West itself. From nineteenth-century |
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