The criss-crossing of traditions : globalisation and cultural closure -- Should we stop using the word "culture"? -- The imaginary polis -- The materialisation of the political imaginaire -- Conclusion : the paradoxical invention of modernity.
"The concept of cultural identity has become for many a convenient explanation for most of the world's political problems. In The Illusion of Cultural Identity Jean-François Bayart offers a sustained critique of this rationalization by dispelling the notion that fixed cultural i…
Om den islamiske verdens syn på den vestlige verden
Speurtocht naar de oorsprong en de aard van de antipathie tegen de moderne westerse samenleving en ideeën.
"Twenty-five years after Edward Said's Orientalism, a whole field of study has developed to analyze and interpret the denigrating fantasies of the exotic "East" that sustained the colonial mind. But what about the fantasies of "the West" in the eyes of our self-proclaimed enemie…
"This study 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 n…