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Item Details
Title:
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CULTURAL SCHIZOPHRENIA
ISLAMIC SOCIETIES CONFRONTING THE WEST |
By: |
Daryush Shayegan, John Howe (Trans) |
Format: |
Hardback |
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£25.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0863561624 |
ISBN 13: |
9780863561627 |
Publisher: |
SAQI BOOKS |
Pub. date: |
14 February, 2001 |
Pages: |
188 |
Translated from: |
French |
Description: |
Talks about the debate within the Muslim world: the relationship between its own culture and the influence of Western modernity. |
Synopsis: |
This work is a contribution to what is perhaps the most critical debate within the Muslim world today: the relationship between its own culture and the influence of Western modernity. Based on examples ranging from Iran to Morocco, the author portrays a society he defines as peripheral - bound by a slavish adherence to its own glorified history, its "Tradition", yet facing an external reality that derives from the West. The meeting of these two incompatible worlds leads to a profound distortion, not only in how the Muslim world sees the West but, more importantly, how it sees itself. Shayegan draws on a range of cultural experiences (from China and Japan to India and Latin America) in analyzing the type of mentality that is chained to its history. Sources as diverse as Jung and Octavio Paz widen the scope of this text. Already published in French, this work should be of interest to those concerned with the state of the world today, whether in the Third World or in the West. |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Saqi Books |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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