Tuesday, January 6, 2009

The West’s Cultural Continuity: Aristotle at Mont Saint-Michel

Long before the late Eduard Said invented “Orientalism” to exalt Arab culture and Islamic society at the expense of the West, bien-pensants like Voltaire inclined to express their rebellion against the dwindling vestiges of Christendom by representing Europeans as bigots or clowns and raising up exotic foreigners ...

The West’s Cultural Continuity: Aristotle at Mont Saint-Michel | The Brussels Journal

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