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The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat Paperback – 1 Jun 2003

by Roger Scruton (Author)
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  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum; Reprint edition (1 Jun. 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0826470300
  • ISBN-13: 978-0826470300
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.1 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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"If books, like whiskey, were rated according to strength, "The West and the Rest" would weigh in above 100 proof. It is a brief book, but concentrated. Scruton writes with seductive clarity." """New Criterion"" --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

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Professor Roger Scruton is Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington and Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. His other books include Sexual Desire, The West and the Rest, England: An Elegy, News from Somewhere and Gentle Regrets (all published by Continuum).

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5.0 out of 5 starsfirst impressions mislead
By Simon on 17 Mar. 2005
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Roger Scruton is known for his position somewhere on the traditional right of the political spectrum. Indeed he has written a defence of conservatism. Those on the left may therefore be wary of this book. But as someone who has not in the past sympathised with Scruton's politics I can strongly recommend this book. The book's strength is its intellectual seriousness combined with its clarity of expression. Anyone who is interested in the history of ideas will find this book of interest, since it goes much deeper than the aftermath of 9/11 and addresses the enlightenment and the modern nation-state by contrast with developments in the Islamic world. It also deals with the puzzling, not to say wrongheaded, disposition of some western intellectuals to belittle the cultural heritage of the west and ignore the many benefits this has brought ordinary people the world over. For such intellectuals the west can never redeem itself for the "guilt" associated with its historical dominance over other cultural traditions.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA global crisis of values and identity
By Eratosthenes on 14 Jun. 2016
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In this book Scruton examines the roots of the clash between Islamic and so-called Western values and identity. He suggests that globalisation has resulted in Western values increasingly infiltrating the Islamic world in ways that it had largely been insulated from in the past. The Internet and Social Media have made this infiltration almost impossible to control and America is seen by the Islamic world as being the most powerful force which is driving this process. The result is a global response to this perceived threat to Islamic values and identity. Whilst Scruton generally sees Western democratic values as being preferable to Islamic theocracy, he is very frank about the decadence, bewildering conflict of ideas and values, and crisis of identity which Western influences bring to the Islamic world. What is particularly thought provoking here is the idea that people in democratic societies may well find much of this decadence, conflict, and identity crisis as disturbing, and perhaps even as frightening, as the Islamic world does. In other words Western values and beliefs seem to be in crisis anyway, irrespective of how the Islamic world sees them. The even more profound consequence of this crisis within Western democracies is an increasing crisis with regard to any kind of shared identity. The clash between Islam and the West could therefore be seen not just as a conflict between theocratic and democratic ideas, but even more profoundly as a clash between what may appear to be stability, certainty and a clear sense of shared identity within the Islamic world and ever greater instability, uncertainty and fragmentation of any shared identity in the democratic world.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsa voice in the wilderness
By A Customer on 19 Nov. 2003
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This slim little volume packs more facts and well-reasoned arguments than all the Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky tomes put together. This remarkable intellect knows more about the Islamic world than all the George Galloways and Charles Kennedys in Britain. For one thing, he actually knows Arabic, and has closely studied many Islamic texts, something none of these other blowhards can claim. Brits may assume this book provides nothing but a pro-Western slant to recent events, but that's far from the case. In fact, Scruton sympathizes a great deal with militant Islamic critiques of Western-style consumerism. But he explains how their "solution" to the problem, the fundamentalist Islamification of the world, would destroy more than our right to buy what we want, but all the freedoms we hold dear. There is a wistful current throughout, as he demonstrates how the self-loathing and self-flagellation of so many Westerners are symptoms of our culture's almost-inevitable decline. Whether it can revive its past vigor, or what might take its place, is difficult to fathom at this stage. But one thing is for sure: if you believe that Islamism would be an improvement, you're deluding yourself.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA New Sheriff For The Old West
By Jesse Foster-Stout on 18 Aug. 2016
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According to noted English philosopher, Sir Roger Scruton, "the principle target of al-Qa'eda," whose terroristic strike against the United States in 2001 we may take as synecdochal of contemporary Islamist hatred generally, "is neither Western civilisation, nor Christianity, nor global capitalism" (156) ; nor is al-Qa'eda's motivation for striking whatever it was in The West that it meant above all to strike readily to be envisaged as vengeance for anything The West ever did in or to The Middle East but, rather, against that which we, most essentially, are : "the Muslim terrorist target[s] the nation-state [per se] as the true work of Satan" (156). "Al-Qa'eda," whose name means "base," accepts "no territory as home and no human law as authoritative" (128) ; concomittantly, it seeks to overrun our territory and eradicate our home. Insidiously enlarged by globalisation (85) even as its own lifeblood of territorial loyalties recedes (83), The West today presents the "spectacle of a secular society maintained by…laws [man-made rather than divinely proclaimed]" (158) and continuing therewith to achieve, not only the equilibrium that has eluded The Muslim World, but a sort of degenerate yet interminable prosperity. It is this spectacle that provokes in many Muslims what Scruton aptly calls "a seething desire to punish" (83), yet it is not foremost with the origins of Islamist hatred that Scruton is concerned in The West And The Rest but with our own identity, the identity of Western Civilisation, and what sets it apart from every other.Read more ›
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