[lit-ideas] Amis Antithesis
- From: "Simon Ward" <sedward@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2006 22:56:55 +0100
Following Amis' essay (link provided in a previous post), this week Pankaj
Mishra provides a counterthrust. And I can confidently say that this won't
appeal much to Lawrence and Eric, but that doesn't mean to say they shouldn't
read it.
Extract:
"It is as if the rage, fear and contempt that have overwhelmed many people in
the non-Western world have also overwhelmed some of the brightest people in the
West, distorting their vision to the point where some extraordinarily crude
fantasies - insulting Islam into a Reformation, boosting an American Empire,
bombing entire societies into democracy - appear to them as practical solutions
to the problems of living in an overcrowded world with people who are not and,
perhaps, do not wish to be like them."
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/politicsphilosophyandsociety/story/0,,1874132,00.html#article_continue
Simon
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