The Idea Of The West

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The Idea of the West
Culture, Politics and History
Alastair Bonnett


Palgrave Macmillan

INTRODUCTION
The West: Ancient and Modern
Knowing the West
Geography and the World
Chapters in a Global History<b>
FROM WHITE TO WESTERN: 'RACIAL DECLINE' AND THE IDEA OF THE WEST IN BRITAIN, 1890-1930</b>
Introduction
White Decay
The West's West: Beginnings
The Western Path Out of White Crisis
Conclusions
COMMUNISTS LIKE US: THE IDEA OF THE WEST IN THE SOVIET UNION
Introduction
The West Versus Communism
Russia's West
The Revolutionary West
The Western Enemy
The 'Kidnapped West' and Russia's 'Return'
Conclusions
GOOD-BYE ASIA: THE WESTERNISERS WEST, FUKUZAWA AND GOKALP
Introduction
The Uses of the West
Fukuzawa Yukichi: Occidentalism and Nationalism in Japan
Ziya Gokalp: Finding Turkey, Inventing the West
Conclusions
SOULLESS OCCIDENT/SPIRITUAL ASIA: TAGORE'S WEST
Introduction
Asia is One: The West as Spiritual Void
Who Wants to be Asian?: The Failure of Tagore's Mission to the East
Asian Spirituality: Transcending the West
Conclusions: Tagore and Modernity
FROM SOULLESS TO SLACKER: THE IDEA OF THE WEST FROM PAN-ASIANISM TO ASIAN VALUES
Introduction: Forget Tagore
Pan-Asianism: Eastern Redemption, Western Nationalism
The Slacker West and Asian Values
Conclusions
OCCIDENTAL UTOPIA:THE NEO-LIBERAL WEST
Introduction
Social Democracy: The Unproclaimed West
Westernisation: Victory in Defeat
Neo-liberal Democracy: Western Triumph and Western Blue-print
Conclusions: The Vulnerability of the Neo-liberal Model
WESTERN DYSTOPIA: RADICAL ISLAMISM AND ANTI-WESTERNISM
Introduction
The Clash of Utopias?
The Islamisation of Anti-Westernism
Conclusions: Islamism and Neo-liberal Globalisation
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index