Occidentalism - West in Eyes of Its Enemies 2003062374

A pioneering investigation of anti-Western stereotypes - Twenty-five years after Edward Said's Orientalism, a whole

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Table of contents :
War Against the West 1

The Occidental City 13

Heroes and Merchants 49

Mind of the West 75

The Wrath of God 101

Seeds of Revolution 137
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[ALSO BY AVISHAI MARGALIT]

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[ □ CCIDENTALISM] THE WEST IN THE EYES OF ITS ENEMIES

IAN BURUMA AVISHAI MARGALIT

THE PENGUIN PRESS

New York 2004

THE PENGUIN PRESS

a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 375 Hudson Street New York, New York 10014 Copyright© Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit, 2004 All rights reserved Pomons of this book appeared in different form in an essay entitled "Occidentalism," The New York Review of Books, January 17, 2002. Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint excerpts from "Choruses from The Rock'" from Collected Poems 1909-1962 byT. S. Eliot. Copyright 1936 by Harcourt, Inc. Copyright© 1964, 1963 byT. S. Eliot. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc., and Faber and Faber. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Buruma, Ian. Occidentalism : the West in the eyes of its enemies / Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN I-59420-008-4 I. Civilization, Western. 2. Developing countries­ Civilization-Western influences. I. Margalit, Avishai, I939- II. Title. CB245.B875 2004 2003062374 303.48' I 7240 I 82 I----