From Orientalism to Occidentalism

نوع المستند : المقالة الأصلية

المؤلف

Professor of Philosophy, Cairo University

المستخلص

Cultures are living entities, carried by living human beings, and subject to the same laws of life, birth and death, struggle or concord, conflict or dialogue. The two alternative models exist. By‑passing conflict and preaching dialogue is mere rhetoric. History of cultures would show when the two models existed and under which circumstances.