A Fundamental Fear: Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism - Brossura

Sayyid, S.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1783601914 ISBN 13: 9781783601912

Casa editrice: Zed Books, 2014

Riassunto

A Fundamental Fear was written in 1997, long before 9/11 and the global rise of a new generation of Islamic fundamentalist groups. Its author, S. Sayyid, offered what we recognize now as a prescient warning of a dangerous specter he saw haunting Western civilization. His groundbreaking book offers an analysis of the conditions that have made Islamic fundamentalism possible and provides a provocative account of the ways in which Muslim identities over the last two decades have come to play an increasingly political role in the West.

Still as timely and urgent as when it was originally published, A Fundamental Fear presents the complicated story of why individuals chose to kill and be killed in the name of religion. Sayyid argues that the fear and anxiety aroused by Islamism is not a myth or a simple consequence of terrorism, but it is intricately tied to our experience of the slow collapse of the Western world order. This new edition brings this powerful book to a new readership during a time of continued crisis in the Middle East.

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Recensione:

'Sayyid's book has considerable intellectual and personal drive, showing how the adoption of a poststructuralist perspective can alter our perception of important matters of cultural politics'
Nations and Nationalism

'A theoretically sophisticated attempt to read contemporary Muslim political identities as a symptom of Eurocentrism's decline'
Global Society

'A welcome change... should be of great interest to those who wish to look at the phenomenon of political Islam and the divination of the clash between the West and the rest from a more sophisticated and theoretical angle... a worthy contribution.'
Impact International

'Sayyid, with this dense and seminal work, has made a welcome attempt to reframe the uses of the term Islam within intellectual discourses without resort to populist terminology. The book is a broad treatment of the state of Islam and its relationship with the West and the West's relationship with the East... takes a fresh look at how Islam has reached its much-maligned status... Not only is [Sayyid] polemical, incisive and engaging, he is at times poetical. His use of metaphor and analogy serves to illustrate the complexity of the issues that he is putting across'
Sociology

'If we were to take up the suggestion of Norberto Bobbio that classics are those works able to speak to us in any time and any space, then this book should almost certainly be included in a list of contemporary classics...Although both Islamists and Orientalists have constructed an opposition between the West and Islam, this myth is convincingly deconstructed by Sayyid's argument - and the book leaves us with little doubt this dichotomy is a major simplification of the historical processes of the last century.'
--Contemporary South Asia

L'autore:

S. Sayyid is the inaugural director of the International Centre for Muslim and Non-Muslim Understanding at the University of South Australia.

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• Editore: Zed Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1783601914
• ISBN 13: 9781783601912
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero edizione: 3
• Numero di pagine: 185