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  • Islam and Capitalism

    Serier Bog 7 - Saqi Essentials
    Presents a rebuttal of the cultural reductionism of Max Weber and others who have tried to explain the politics and society of the Middle East by reference to some unchanging entity called 'Islam,' typically characterised as instinctively hostile to capitalism. This work looks at the facts, analysing economic texts with his customary common sense. ... Læs mere

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  • Orientalism

    **A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. • With a new foreword by Ussama Makdisi"Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." —The New York Times**In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces ... Læs mere

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  • The Selected Works of Edward W. Said, 1966 - 2006

    **The renowned literary and cultural critic Edward Said was one of our era’s most provocative and important thinkers. This comprehensive collection of his work draws from across his entire four-decade career, including his posthumously published books, making it a definitive one-volume source."Said is a brilliant and unique amalgam of scholar, aesthete, and political activist...[He] challenges and ... Læs mere

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  • The West and the Rest

    Globalization and the Terrorist Threat

    af Roger Scruton ...
    Scruton shows how the different religious and philosophical roots of Western and Islamic societies have resulted in those societies' profoundly divergent beliefs about the nature of political order. For one thing, the idea of the social contract, crucial to the self-conception of Western nations, is entirely absent in Islamic societies. Similarly, Scruton explains why the notions of territorial ... Læs mere

    75,00 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Tyranny of Guilt

    An Essay on Western Masochism

    Oversat af Steven Rendall ...
    Fascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, imperialism--the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt. And, indeed, since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, Europeans in particular have been consumed by remorse. But Pascal Bruckner argues that guilt has now gone too far. It has become a pathology, and even an obstacle to fighting today's atrocities. Bruckner, one of France's leading ... Læs mere

    183,74 kr.

  • Without Roots

    Europe, Relativism, Christianity, Islam

    On May 12, 2004, Pope Benedict XVI - then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger-addressed the Italian Senate on the state of the West; the very same day, Joseph Pera, President of the Italian Senate, spoke before the Lateran College of the Papal University. Together they called upon the West to confront the spiritual, cultural, and political malaise that have afflicted it in the earliest years of the 21st ... Læs mere

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  • The Roots of Civilisation

    PRISON WRITINGS - THE ROOTS OF CIVILISATION Abdullah Ocalan was the most wanted man in Turkey for almost two decades until his kidnapping and arrest in Nairobi in 1999. He has been in Prison ever since. He is the founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). From 1984, under his leadership, the PKK fought for an independent Kurdish state in the Southeast of Turkey. In a sustained popular uprising, ... Læs mere

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  • Islam in History

    Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East

    af Bernard Lewis ...
    From secular-minded autocrats like Saddam Hussein to religious fundamentalists like Osama bin Laden, powerful voices in the Islamic world have been united by a fierce hatred of the West. If we want to know why they think the way they do, we have to understand the history of Islam and its continuous interactions with the West.This masterly collection of essays by a leading expert on Islam and the ... Læs mere

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  • The Secular Outlook

    In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism

    af Paul Cliteur ...
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    The Secular Outlook: In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism shows how people can live together and overcome the challenge of religious terrorism by adopting a "secular outlook" on life and politics.Shows how secularism can answer the problem of religious terrorismProvides new perspectives on how religious minorities can be integrated into liberal democraciesReveals how secularism has gained ... Læs mere

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  • Sex & Secularism

    Serier serie The Public Square
    How secularism has been used to justify the subordination of women—from the author of Gender and the Politics of History .One of The Guardian 's Best Books of the YearJoan Wallach Scott's acclaimed and controversial writings have been foundational for the field of gender history. With Sex and Secularism, Scott challenges one of the central claim... ... Læs mere

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  • Formations of the Secular

    Christianity, Islam, Modernity

    af Talal Asad ...
    Serier serie Cultural Memory in the Present
    Opening with the provocative query “what might an anthropology of the secular look like?” this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Middle East.Talal Asad proceeds to dismantle commonly held assumptions about the secular and the ... Læs mere

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  • Religious Difference in a Secular Age

    A Minority Report

    af Saba Mahmood ...
    How secular governance in the Middle East is making life worse—not better—for religious minoritiesThe plight of religious minorities in the Middle East is often attributed to the failure of secularism to take root in the region. Religious Difference in a Secular Age challenges this assessment by examining four cornerstones of secularism—political and civil equality, minority rights, religious ... Læs mere

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