1st Edition
The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
10 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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While globalization unifies the world, divisions re-emerge within it in the form of a spectacular separation between Islam and the West. How can it be that Huntington’s contested idea of a clash of civilizations became such a powerful political myth through which so many people look at the world?
Bottici and Challand disentangle such a process of myth-making both in the West and in Muslim... Read more
Introduction 1. Political Myths 2. Icons 3. Myth and Theory 4. The Politics of Myth 5. The Struggle for People’s Imagination
Biography
Chiara Bottici is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department of the New School for Social Research (New York).
Benoit Challand is Visiting Associate Professor in the Politics Department of the New School for Social Research (New York).
"[T]he perspectives presented in this book shed an interesting new light on the myths-making processes underpinning the notion of a clash of civilizations. This work moves the debate away from sterile discussions about civilizations and highlights instead the value of analysing political myths as structuring and being structured by the social imaginary of specific political communities." - Frederic Volpi, University of St Andrews; Journal of Islamic Studies, vol 23, no 1, January 2012
