Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia - Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought Aydin Cemil Associate Professor of History and Director Ali Vural Ak Center for Islamic Studies Geor

Specifikacia Politics of Anti-Westernism in Asia - Visions of World Order in Pan-Islamic and Pan-Asian Thought Aydin Cemil Associate Professor of History and Director Ali Vural Ak Center for Islamic Studies Geor

In this rich intellectual history, Cemil Aydin challenges the notion that anti-Westernism in modern Asia is a political and religious reaction to the liberal and democratic values of the West. Nor is anti-Westernism a natural response to Western imperialism. Instead, by focusing on the agency and achievements of non-Western intellectuals, Aydin demonstrates that modern anti-Western discourse grew out of the legitimacy crisis of a single, Eurocentric global polity in the age of high imperialism.Aydin compares Ottoman pan-Islamic and Japanese pan-Asian visions of world order from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of World War II. He looks at when the idea of a universal "West" first took root in the minds of Asian intellectuals and reformers and how it became essential in criticizing the West for violating its own "standards of civilization." Aydin also illustrates