Disordered World: Setting a New Course for the Twenty-First Century

Disordered World: Setting a New Course for the Twenty-First Century

In this brilliant exploration of the post-9/11 world, leading Lebanese novelist and intellectual Amin Maalouf sets out to understand how we have arrived at such disorder. He explores three different but related aspects of disorder: intellectual (manifested in an unleashing of statements on identity that allow no possibility of peaceful co-existence or debate), economic and financial (that is exhausting the earth’s resources), and climatic (the result of turning a blind eye to the consequences of rampant industrialization). Instead of seeing the current disorder of the post-9/11 world as ‘a clash of civilisations’ Maalouf sees it as the ‘exhaustion of two civilisations’, a period in which humanity has reached its threshold of ‘moral incompetence’. Islam and the West have theoretical coherence, he says, but in practice each betrays its true ideals: the West is unfaithful to its own enlightenment values, which has discredited it in the eyes of the people to whom it has introduced de...
Author: Maalouf Amin
ISBN: 9781408822678
Year of publication: 2011
Translator: Miller George
Genre: Culturology, Politics, Social Studies, Sociology, History
Number of pages: 212
Reading time: 3 h. 32 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
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