Cultural Schizophrenia: Islamic Societies Confronting the West (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East)

Cultural Schizophrenia: Islamic Societies Confronting the West (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East)

Cultural Schizophrenia: Islamic Societies Confronting the West (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East)

Cultural Schizophrenia: Islamic Societies Confronting the West (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East)

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Overview

Professor Daryush Shayegan's book is a major contribution to what is perhaps the most critical debate within the Muslim world today: the relationship between its own culture and the influence of Western modernity.
Based on examples ranging from Iran to Morocco, the author portrays a society he defines as peripheral--bound by a slavish adherence to its own glorified history, its "Tradition"--yet facing an external reality that derives from the West. The meeting of these two incompatible worlds sees the West but, more importantly, in how it sees itself.

Shayegan draws on a vast range of cultural experiences (from China and Japan to India and Latin America) in analyzing the type of mentality that is chained to its history. Sources as diverse as Jung and Octavio Paz widen the scope of this illuminating text.

Already published in French, Turkish, Spanish, and Arabic to great critical acclaim, this English edition of Cultural Schizophrenia will be required reading for everyone concerned with the state of the world today, whether in the Third World or the West.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780815605072
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Publication date: 12/28/1997
Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History Series
Pages: 188
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.03(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Daryush Shayegan is a former professor of comparative philosophy and Indology at Tehran University, former director of the Iranian Center for the Study of Civilizations and former director of the Institute for Ismaìli Studies in Paris.
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