ISBN:
9780226805757
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9780226805788 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
244 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780226805788
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
DDC:
305.697
Abstract:
The relationship between Western democracies and Islam, rarely entirely comfortable, has in recent years become increasingly tense. A growing immigrant population and worries about cultural and political assimilation-exacerbated by terrorist attacks in the United States, Europe, and around the world-have provoked reams of commentary from all parts of the political spectrum, a frustrating majority of it hyperbolic or even hysterical.In The Fear of Barbarians, the celebrated intellectual Tzvetan Todorov offers a corrective: a reasoned and often highly personal analysis of the pr...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Online-Ausg.:
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