The West and the rest : globalization and the terrorist threat

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Label

The West and the rest : globalization and the terrorist threat

Title remainder

globalization and the terrorist threat

Statement of responsibility

Roger Scruton

Creator

• Scruton, Roger

Subject

• Globalización
• Globalización -- Aspectos religiosos | Islam
• Globalization
• Globalization
• Globalization -- Religious aspects | Islam
• Globalization -- Religious aspects | Islam
• International relations
• International relations -- Religious aspects | Islam
• Religion
• Globalisierung
• Religion and international relations
• Religion and politics
• Religión y asuntos internacionales
• Terrorism
• Terrorism
• Terrorism
• Terrorismo
• Terrorismus
• Religion and international relations

Language

eng

Summary

"In The West and the Rest, Scruton argues that to comprehend Islamist terrorism, one must understand what is unique - and what is potentially dangerous - about Western institutions, ideas, and technology." "Scruton shows how the different religious and philosophical roots of Western and Islamic societies have resulted in those societies' profoundly divergent beliefs about the nature of political order. For one thing, the idea of the social contract, crucial to the self-conception of Western nations, is entirely absent in Islamic societies. Similarly, Scruton explains why the notions of territorial jurisdiction, citizenship, and the independent legitimacy of secular authority and law are both specifically Western and fundamentally antipathetic to Islamic thought."--Jacket

Cataloging source

N$V

Dewey number

291.1787

Index

index present

LC call number

JZ1318

LC item number

.S38 2002

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography