OCCIDENTALISM: A Short History of Anti-Westernism (SIGNED COPY)

A groundbreaking investigation into the hostile stereotypes of the Western world that fuel the hatred at the heart of movements such as Al Qaeda. Well-published scholars Buruma (Luce Professor of Human Rights & Journalism, Bard Coll., and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books) and Margalit (Schulman Professor of Philosophy, Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem) provide a brief but engaging discussion of the East/West cultural fault line. They seek to explain how the dehumanizing” picture of the West-which they call “”Occidentalism””-originated and developed. Using examples from various settings