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The clash of barbarisms : (Achcar, Gilbert.)

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The clash of barbarisms :
Subtitle:	the making of the new world disorder /
Author:	Achcar, Gilbert. Search Author in Amazon Books
Publisher:	Saqi,
ISBN:	0863569196
Edition:	2006.
Classification:	DS63.2.U5
Dewey:	327.73056

Detailed notes

- Originally published: 2002.

- Includes bibliographical references and index.

- Narcissistic compassion and global spectacle -- Anti-Americanism and 'values' -- Absolute and relative evil -- The uniqueness of 11 September -- Globalization and narcissistic compassion -- The media and the logic of war -- Oil, religion, fanaticism and Frankensteins -- The sorcerer's apprentices -- An Islamic Texas -- Propagating Islamic fundamentalism -- Interpretations of Islamic fundamentalism -- On despotism in Muslim countries -- Neither fascist nor progressive -- Bin Laden's duel with Washington -- Hatred, barbarisms, asymmetry and anomie -- Hatred and strategy -- The clash of barbarisms -- Preventing terrorism -- On asymmetric dominance -- Hegemonic unilateralism -- Apocalyptic terrorism -- Urban violence and anomie -- The barbarism of the 'civilizing mission' -- Varieties of perverse enjoyment -- The 'civilizing mission's' new clothes -- The 'democracy paradox' -- Conclusion : Leviathan and the presidents -- Conceptions of world order -- Postwar choices.

- Translated from the French.