The myth of the clash of civilizations/
Chiara Bottici and Benoît Challand.
- Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; New York : Routledge, c2010.
- xiii, 177 p. ; 25 cm.
- Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies; 18. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1.1. Understanding myth: a theoretical framework -- 1.2. Political myth -- 1.3. Political myth, history and ideology -- 1.4. Conclusions -- 2.1. Icons, symbols and the social unconscious -- 2.2. Facing the unknown: a journey into Arabland -- 2.3. Fascination or fear? A journey into the land of infidels (kafir) -- 2.4. Conclusions -- 3.1. Reducing complexity -- 3.2. Entrapping identity -- 3.3. Hiding from reality -- 3.4. Beyond orientalism and occidentalism -- 3.5. Conclusions -- 4.1. Crusades, coexistence, colonialism: the historical background to the orientalist gaze -- 4.2. Colonial and post-colonial struggles -- 4.3. From the Cold War to the age of a self-fulfilled prophecy -- 4.4. spectacle of the clash of civilizations: myth, media and rituals -- 4.5. Conclusions -- 5.1. Beyond civilization -- 5.2. Struggles over the East/West divide -- 5.3. Imaginal politics -- 5.4. repositioning of religion in the public sphere -- 5.5. Conclusions.
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