Alastair Bonnett

The Idea of the West

Politics, Culture and History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a clear, topical and wide-ranging introduction to the idea of "the West." It engages with both Western and non-Western representations and demonstrates that "the West" is not merely a Western idea, but something that many people around the world have long been creating, stereotyping and deploying. Bonnett offers an accessible but provocative portrait of the ambiguities and diverse connotations of "the West," teasing out questions of race, politics and power from the late nineteenth-century to the present day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL / Macmillan Education
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 274g
• ISBN-13: 9781403900357
• ISBN-10: 1403900353
• Artikelnr.: 21505451

Autorenporträt

Alastair Bonnett

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION The West: Ancient and Modern Knowing the West Geography and
the World Chapters in a Global History FROM WHITE TO WESTERN: 'RACIAL
DECLINE' AND THE IDEA OF THE WEST IN BRITAIN, 1890-1930 Introduction White
Decay The West's West: Beginnings The Western Path Out of White Crisis
Conclusions COMMUNISTS LIKE US: THE IDEA OF THE WEST IN THE SOVIET UNION
Introduction The West Versus Communism Russia's West The Revolutionary West
The Western Enemy The 'Kidnapped West' and Russia's 'Return' Conclusions
GOOD-BYE ASIA: THE WESTERNISERS WEST, FUKUZAWA AND GOKALP Introduction The
Uses of the West Fukuzawa Yukichi: Occidentalism and Nationalism in Japan
Ziya Gokalp: Finding Turkey, Inventing the West Conclusions SOULLESS
OCCIDENT SPIRITUAL ASIA: TAGORE'S WEST Introduction Asia is One: The West
as Spiritual Void Who Wants to be Asian?: The Failure of Tagore's Mission
to the East Asian Spirituality: Transcending the West Conclusions: Tagore
and Modernity FROM SOULLESS TO SLACKER: THE IDEA OF THE WEST FROM
PAN-ASIANISM TO ASIAN VALUES Introduction: Forget Tagore Pan-Asianism:
Eastern Redemption, Western Nationalism The Slacker West and Asian Values
Conclusions OCCIDENTAL UTOPIA:THE NEO-LIBERAL WEST Introduction Social
Democracy: The Unproclaimed West Westernisation: Victory in Defeat
Neo-liberal Democracy: Western Triumph and Western Blue-print Conclusions:
The Vulnerability of the Neo-liberal Model WESTERN DYSTOPIA: RADICAL
ISLAMISM AND ANTI-WESTERNISM Introduction The Clash of Utopias? The
Islamisation of Anti-Westernism Conclusions: Islamism and Neo-liberal
Globalisation Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.