Immoral, decadent, greedy…that’s us. A counterpart to Edward Said’s Orientalism, Occidentalism, the East’s negative construction of Western civilization, has been proposed as a framework to understand anti-Western sentiment. Read excerpts from our guest’s article in the New York Review of Books and from Edward Said’s book.
Read the article on Occidentalism
A brief excerpt from Orientalism
Read the article on Occidentalism
A brief excerpt from Orientalism
Shaking Up the Corporate Suite
William Saletan, Washington Political Correspondant for Slate.com, discusses Congress' plans for corporate reform
Too Big for His Breaches
Tom Fitton, President, Judicial Watch, the accusation of corporate breaches against Vice President Cheney
Occidentalism: It Ain't Accidental
Avishai Margalit Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and author of The Ethics of Memory (Harvard University Press, November 2002. On understanding anti-Western sentiment in the East.
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