#David_Marquand on the End of the West
Before we talk about your five books, I am interested in definitions of #East and #West. What do you regard as the old fashioned perception of East and West?
The essence of the old fashioned perception is this. The West is seen as the home of modernity, of the values of the Enlightenment, of democracy and of market economics. The East is seen as backward, and lacking in the values of the Enlightenment which it never experienced. In the eyes of many people in the West, it follows that the West is both more advanced than the East and morally superior to it. This is a gross over-simplification of course, but that is the old perception.
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