Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies by Ian Buruma, Avishai Margalit

Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies

Ian Buruma, Avishai Margalit

176 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history philosophy politics challenging reflective slow-paced
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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 Av...

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