LEADER 04290nam 2200793Ia 450 001 9910974777403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612894824 010 $a9781282894822 010 $a128289482X 010 $a9780226805788 010 $a0226805786 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226805788 035 $a(CKB)2670000000055690 035 $a(EBL)602602 035 $a(OCoLC)676699155 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000417612 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12130767 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000417612 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10368113 035 $a(PQKB)11423064 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC602602 035 $a(DE-B1597)523678 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226805788 035 $a(Perlego)1852794 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000055690 100 $a20100308d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe fear of barbarians $ebeyond the clash of civilizations /$fTzvetan Todorov ; translated by Andrew Brown 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago ;$aLondon $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (244 pages) 300 $aTranslated from the French. 311 0 $a9780226805757 311 0 $a0226805751 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: Between Fear and Resentment --$t1. Barbarism and Civilization --$t2. Collective Identities --$t3. The War of the Worlds --$t4. Steering between the Reefs --$t5. European Identity --$tConclusion: Beyond Manicheism --$tAfterword, 2010 --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aThe relationship between Western democracies and Islam, rarely entirely comfortable, has in recent years become increasingly tense. A growing immigrant population and worries about cultural and political assimilation-exacerbated by terrorist attacks in the United States, Europe, and around the world-have provoked reams of commentary from all parts of the political spectrum, a frustrating majority of it hyperbolic or even hysterical. In The Fear of Barbarians, the celebrated intellectual Tzvetan Todorov offers a corrective: a reasoned and often highly personal analysis of the problem, rooted in Enlightenment values yet open to the claims of cultural difference. Drawing on history, anthropology, and politics, and bringing to bear examples ranging from the murder of Theo van Gogh to the French ban on headscarves, Todorov argues that the West must overcome its fear of Islam if it is to avoid betraying the values it claims to protect. True freedom, Todorov explains, requires us to strike a delicate balance between protecting and imposing cultural values, acknowledging the primacy of the law, and yet strenuously protecting minority views that do not interfere with its aims. Adding force to Todorov's arguments is his own experience as a native of communist Bulgaria: his admiration of French civic identity-and Western freedom-is vigorous but non-nativist, an inclusive vision whose very flexibility is its core strength. The record of a penetrating mind grappling with a complicated, multifaceted problem, The Fear of Barbarians is a powerful, important book-a call, not to arms, but to thought. 606 $aEast and West 606 $aCivilization$xPhilosophy 606 $aIslam and politics 606 $aDemocracy$xReligious aspects$xIslam 606 $aGroup identity$zEurope 606 $aManichaeism 606 $aWorld politics$y1989- 606 $aCivilization, Modern$y1950- 607 $aIslamic countries$xRelations$zEurope 607 $aEurope$xRelations$zIslamic countries 615 0$aEast and West. 615 0$aCivilization$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aIslam and politics. 615 0$aDemocracy$xReligious aspects$xIslam. 615 0$aGroup identity 615 0$aManichaeism. 615 0$aWorld politics 615 0$aCivilization, Modern 676 $a909/.09767 700 $aTodorov$b Tzvetan$f1939-$0142300 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910974777403321 996 $aThe fear of barbarians$94356823 997 $aUNINA