# Occidentalism

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- Book: [Occidentalism](https://www.bookquiver.com/avishai-margalit/occidentalism) ([Occidentalism.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/avishai-margalit/occidentalism.md))
- Authors: [Avishai Margalit](https://www.bookquiver.com/avishai-margalit), [Ian Buruma](https://www.bookquiver.com/ian-buruma)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4303-487-2
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2005-03-29
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Twenty-five years ago, Edward Said's Orientalism spawned a generation of scholarship on the denigrating and dangerous mirage of " the East" in the Western colonial mind. But " the West" is the more dangerous...