Cultural Schizophrenia

by Dariush Shayegan

Book Overview

Professor Daryush Shayegan's book is a major contribution to what is perhaps the most critical debate within the Muslim world today: the relationship between its own culture and the influence of Western modernity.
Based on examples ranging from Iran to Morocco, the author portrays a society he defines as peripheral--bound by a slavish adherence to its own glorified history, its "Tradition"--yet facing an external reality that derives from the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815605072
• ISBN13: 9780815605072
• Release Date: November 1997
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"