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...philosophy at Jerusalem's Hebrew University, assert that the ideas inspiring bin Laden and his fellow terrorists originally sprang from the West. The book is a belated follow-up to Orientalism, the classic 1978 work by Palestinian-American intellectual Edward Said, which described how Europeans have long stereotyped non-Westerners ("Orientals") in ways that emphasize their irrationality and childishness. Occidentalism tells the other side of the story: how influential non-Western thinkers, especially in Islamic countries such as Iran, Egypt and Pakistan, have portrayed Americans and Europeans as being money-minded, effeminate, sexually promiscuous and decadent - thus providing the intellectual...
Sen’s early education was also rather unusual for the time in its embrace of a globalizing world, drawing curricular material from the thought and culture of several non-western nations...
...book is a belated follow-up to Orientalism, the classic 1978 work by Palestinian-American intellectual Edward Said, which described how Europeans have long stereotyped non-Westerners ("Orientals") in ways that emphasize their irrationality and childishness. Occidentalism tells the other side of the story: how influential non-Western thinkers, especially in Islamic countries such as Iran, Egypt and Pakistan, have portrayed Americans and Europeans as being money-minded, effeminate, sexually promiscuous and decadent-thus providing the intellectual justification for Islamic terrorism...
...that deal with the art, literature, philosophy, social science and history of people of color worldwide. The newly-proposed “Harvard College Courses,” with their interdiscliplinary approaches to traditional questions, provide a perfect platform for the College to increase the visibility and importance of non-Western approaches to knowledge. A global citizen of the 21st century should be able to draw on a plethora of cultural and intellectual traditions when making decisions...
...faculty accepted that day was made up of 10 Core areas: Literature, Fine Arts, Music and Contexts of Culture, Historical Orientation, Historical Process and Perspective, Social Analysis, Moral and Political Philosophy, Physical Science and Mathematics, Biological and Behavioral Science, and either Western Europe (including language) or a major non-Western culture...