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Disordered World : Setting a New Course for the Twenty-first Century by Amin Maalouf is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Born into a Christian minority in Lebanon and since settled in France, acclaimed writer Amin Maalouf claims a unique position in global conversation. His first book, The Crusades through Arab Eyes , was a critical and commercial success and remains in print after 20 years. In Disordered World , Maalouf combines his command of history with a critical perspective on contemporary culture East and West-joining them with a fierce moral clarity and a fluid, propulsive style. In this "disordered world" of ours, Maalouf argues, the human race faces any number of urgent threats: climate change, global financial crisis, humanitarian disasters. Yet these threats have not united us. In fact, tensions are rising between the Arab world and the West. This is not, Maalouf maintains, a "clash of civilizations." We lack ideological debate because there seems to be no common ground on which to start discussion. Rather, our civilizations are exhausted, declined into moral incompetence. The West has betrayed its enlightenment values, even as it pushes democracy abroad. The Arab world, nostalgic for its golden era, has rushed toward radicalism. Maalouf eruditely examines a century of confrontations be
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- Author
- Amin Maalouf
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781608196289
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Philosophy, History
Other editions & translations
- اختلال العالم : حضاراتنا المتهافتة Iẖtilāl al-ʿĀlam : ḥaḍāratunā al-mutahafitaẗ (2009)
- Un Mondo Senza Regole (2009)
- Çivisi çıkmış dünya : uygarlıklarımız tükendiğinde (2009)
- Le Dérèglement du monde (Le Livre de Poche) (2010)
- Disordered World : A Vision for the Post-9/11 World (2011)
- Disordered World : A Vision for the Post-9/11 World (2009)
- Le Dérèglement Du Monde : Quand Nos Civilisations S'épuisent (2009)
- Le Dérèglement Du Monde : Quand Nos Civilisations S'épuisent (2010)
- Disordered World : A Vision for the Post-9/11 World (2012)
- Çivisi çıkmış dünya : uygarlıklarımız tükendiğinde : deneme (2012)
- El desajuste del mundo: Cuando nuestras civilizaciones se agotan (2009)
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