Cultural Schizophrenia
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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...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0815605072
ISBN13:9780815605072
Release Date:November 1997
Publisher:Syracuse University Press
Length:198 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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