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The Narrative of the Occident

Author : Georg Schmid
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783631575628
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (756 download)

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Download or read book The Narrative of the Occident written by Georg Schmid and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civilizations «narrate themselves» in order to establish legitimacy, succeed against others, portray their own merits to their best advantage. The results express societal dynamics, yet also have a retroactive effect and decisively influence the self-conceptions of the «initiating societies». Political philosophies, interpretations of history and social perceptions of artistic achievements all contribute to these narratives. The dignified components, however, are by no means the sole or even the most important ones. Distinction in material culture (technological proficiency, popular art forms, etc.) or economic adroitness are even more consequential. The occidental narrative has been badly vacillating lately. Its severe crisis - due in part to a lack of collective self-confidence, but also to disagreements between its main strands - merits a meticulous analysis of a multitude of criteria. The resulting critique is embedded in reflections on a general theory of narrativity.

Arab Representations of the Occident

Author : Rasheed El-Enany
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113432099X
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Arab Representations of the Occident written by Rasheed El-Enany and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the first books in English to explore Arab responses to Western culture and values in modern Arab literature. Through in-depth research El-Enany examines the attitudes as expressed mainly through works of fiction written by Arab authors during the twentieth, and, to a lesser extent, nineteenth century. It constitutes an original addition to the age-old East-West debate, and is particularly relevant to the current discussion on Islam and the West. Alongside raising highly topical questions about stereotypical ideas concerning Arabs and Muslims in general, the book explores representations of the West by the foremost Arab intellectuals over a two-century period, up to the present day, and will appeal to those with an interest in Islam, the Middle East, nationalism and the so-called ‘Clash of Civilizations’.

Extreme-Occident

Author : Jean-Philippe Mathy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226510637
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Extreme-Occident written by Jean-Philippe Mathy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993-11-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does "America" mean to French intellectuals? Is it a postmodern ideal situated beyond history and metaphysics? A source of spiritual decadence that threatens the European tradition? Or is it "Extrême-Occident," the Far Western site that gives historical reality to the utopias of the Renaissance and the Enlightenment? Jean-Philippe Mathy offers the first systematic examination of French texts that address the question of America. He shows how prominent French intellectuals have represented America as myth and metaphor, covering the entire ideological spectrum from Maurras to Duhamel, and from Sartre to Aron. The texts themselves range from novels and poems to travel narratives and philosophical essays by Claudel, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Kristeva, and many others. Mathy deftly situates these discourses on America against the background of French intellectual and political history since 1789. The judgments on American culture that originate in France, he contends, are also statements about France itself. Widespread condemnation of American materialism and pragmatism cuts across deep ideological and political divides in France, primarily because French intellectuals still operate within a framework of critical and aesthetic models born in the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance and elaborated in the age of French classicism. Mathy engages issues central to interpreting the American experience, such as the current controversies over multiculturalism and Eurocentrism. Although Mathy deals mainly with French authors, he does not limit himself to them. Rather, he uses a comparative, cross-cultural approach that also takes in accounts of America by Nietzsche, Heidegger, Junger, Gramsci, and other Europeans, as well as American self-interpretations from Emerson and Dewey to Cornel West and Christopher Lasch. Because debates on American modernity have played a crucial intellectual role in France, Extrême-Occident is a major contribution to modern French cultural history. It will be essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the main currents of twentieth-century French thought.

The Bridge

Author : Geert Mak
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 009953214X
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The Bridge written by Geert Mak and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Istanbul s Galata Bridge has spanned the Golden Horn since the sixth century AD, connecting the old city with the more Western districts to the north. But the bridge is a city in itself, peopled by merchants and petty thieves, tourists and fishermen, and at the same time a microcosmic reflection of Turkey as the link between Asia and Europe. Geert Mak introduces us to the woman who sells lottery tickets, the cigarette vendors, and the best pickpockets in Europe. He tells us about the pride of the cobbler and the tea-seller's homesickness. And he describes the role of honor in Turkish culture, the temptations of fundamentalism and violence, and the urge to survive, even in the face of despair. These stories of the bridge s denizens are interwoven with vignettes illuminating moments in the history of Istanbul and Turkey and shedding light on Turkey s relationship with Europe and the West, the Armenian question, the migration from the Turkish countryside to the city, and the demise of the Ottoman Empire."

California Occident

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book California Occident written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Borders and Beyond: Orient-Occident Crossings in Literature

Author : Adam Bednarczyk
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1622735447
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Borders and Beyond: Orient-Occident Crossings in Literature written by Adam Bednarczyk and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work presents articles discussing various subjects relating to literary, cultural borders and borderlands as well as their crossings with the Orient and the Occident. A broad, multifaceted scope of the volume draws the attention of readers to the problem of liminal spaces between cultures, genres, codes and languages of literary and artistic communication. The perspective of borderness proposed by orientalists, literary specialists, culture experts provide insights into multi-dimensional and heterogenic subjects and methods of consideration. The authors referring to, inter alia, comparative studies, theory of reception, intertextuality, transculturality of the East and West works touch upon themes such as coexistence, exclusion, crossing or the instability of borders. Also by taking into account identity issues, the interpenetration of various influences between different literatures, poetics and languages, the readers gain a broader context of intercultural dialogue between the Orient and Occident, what allow them to transgress barriers of a purely artistic, literary reception of the book contents. The volume – due to the abundance of proposed topics, its heterogeneous representations and manifold approaches used in analysis, discussion and (re)interpretations – is a debate’s record or a result of an academic reflection rather than a comprehensive monograph.

Descoberta del dret romà a l'Occident medieval, La / The Discovery of Roman Law in the Medieval West

Author : Max Turull Rubinat
Publisher : Edicions Universitat Barcelona
ISBN 13 : 8447537757
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Descoberta del dret romà a l'Occident medieval, La / The Discovery of Roman Law in the Medieval West written by Max Turull Rubinat and published by Edicions Universitat Barcelona. This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aquesta lliçó posa en relleu la importància històrica del renaixement del dret romà a l’Occident medieval, el qual, juntament amb el dret canònic i l’obra dels juristes bolonyesos, es va difondre per tot Europa amb el nom de ius commune. Molt més que un fenomen estrictament jurídic, va significar un veritable canvi cultural l’ona expansiva del qual es va fer sentir en tots els àmbits de la societat medieval. This lesson highlights the historical importance of the revival of Roman law in the medieval West. Along with canon law and the work of the Bolognese jurists, it spread throughout Europe under the name of ius commune. Much more than a strictly legal phenomenon, it brought about a true cultural change, which affected all areas of medieval society.

The Occident and the Orient

Author : Sir Valentine Chirol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Occident and the Orient written by Sir Valentine Chirol and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Occident and the Orient

Author : Valentine Chirol
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260841513
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book The Occident and the Orient written by Valentine Chirol and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Occident and the Orient: Lectures on the Harris Foundation, 1924 Occident and the Orient based upon the claim of Occidental civilization to inherent and indefeasible superiority over the civilizations of the Orient, and they already threaten to raise a still more danger ous issue of racial conﬂict between the white man and the colored peoples who constitute the vast majority of mankind. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Orientalism

Author : Edward W. Said
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804153868
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Orientalism written by Edward W. Said and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. "Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." —The New York Times In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding.

Israeli Identity

Author : David Tal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134107455
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Israeli Identity written by David Tal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many years before and after the establishment of the state of Israel, the belief that Israel is a western state remained unchallenged. This belief was founded on the predominantly western composition of the pre-statehood Jewish community known as the Yishuv. The relatively homogenous membership of Israeli/Jewish society as it then existed was soon altered with the arrival of hundreds of thousands of Jewish immigrants from Middle Eastern countries during the early years of statehood. Seeking to retain the western character of the Jewish state, the Israeli government initiated a massive acculturation project aimed at westernizing the newcomers. More recently, scholars and intellectuals began to question the validity and logic of that campaign. With the emergence of new forms of identity, or identities, two central questions emerged: to what extent can we accept the ways in which people define themselves? And on a more fundamental level, what weight should we give to the ways in which people define themselves? This book suggests ways of tackling these questions and provides varying perspectives on identity, put forward by scholars interested in the changing nature of Israeli identity. Their observations and conclusions are not exclusive, but inclusive, suggesting that there cannot be one single Israeli identity, but several. Tackling the issue of identity, this multidisciplinary approach is an important contribution to existing literature and will be invaluable for scholars and students interested in cultural studies, Israel, and the wider Middle East.

The Occident and the Orient

Author : Valentine Chirol
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258350086
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Occident and the Orient written by Valentine Chirol and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The failure of the Occident.

Author : Laurent Sueur
Publisher : Laurent Sueur
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The failure of the Occident. written by Laurent Sueur and published by Laurent Sueur. This book was released on 2024-05-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In times past, the Occident enlightened the world when confusion reigned; the crepuscular reason of some righteous nations used to restore order, but this lighthouse is diseased: it seems that it is unable to show societies the ways to reality and goodness. Unfortunately, if the Statue of Liberty drowns in the port of New York, there will be no future, for the rest of the world is not able to exert a civilizing influence on mankind. Hence, the aim of this book is to understand why what was supposed to bring peace, civilization and goodness to the whole planet failed, which will someday enable us to make the world a better place. This is our moral duty, for the universe was not created to witness our downfall.

Occidentalism

Author : Ian Buruma
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143034872
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Occidentalism written by Ian Buruma and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-03-29 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Avishai Margalit argue, and the idea of "the West" in the minds of its self-proclaimed enemies remains largely unexamined and woefully misunderstood. Occidentalism is their groundbreaking investigation of the demonizing fantasies and stereotypes about the Western world that fuel such hatred in the hearts of others. We generally understand "radical Islam" as a purely Islamic phenomenon, but Buruma and Margalit show that while the Islamic part of radical Islam certainly is, the radical part owes a primary debt of inheritance to the West. Whatever else they are, al Qaeda and its ilk are revolutionary anti-Western political movements, and Buruma and Margalit show us that the bogeyman of the West who stalks their thinking is the same one who has haunted the thoughts of many other revolutionary groups, going back to the early nineteenth century. In this genealogy of the components of the anti-Western worldview, the same oppositions appear again and again: the heroic revolutionary versus the timid, soft bourgeois; the rootless, deracinated cosmopolitan living in the Western city, cut off from the roots of a spiritually healthy society; the sterile Western mind, all reason and no soul; the machine society, controlled from the center by a cabal of insiders—often Jews—pulling the hidden levers of power versus an organically knit-together one, a society of "blood and soil." The anti-Western virus has found a ready host in the Islamic world for a number of legitimate reasons, they argue, but in no way does that make it an exclusively Islamic matter. A work of extraordinary range and erudition, Occidentalism will permanently enlarge our collective frame of vision

The Decline of the West

Author : Oswald Spengler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195066340
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (663 download)

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Download or read book The Decline of the West written by Oswald Spengler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography.

The Occident and the Orient in the Art of the Seventh Century

Author : Nils Åberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Occident and the Orient in the Art of the Seventh Century written by Nils Åberg and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Occident and the Orient. Lectures on the Harris Foundation, 1924...

Author : Valentine Chirol (Sir Ignatius Valen)
Publisher : Chicago: University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book The Occident and the Orient. Lectures on the Harris Foundation, 1924... written by Valentine Chirol (Sir Ignatius Valen) and published by Chicago: University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1924 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: