Edward Said: The Myth of "The Clash of Civilizations”

1998 60 min

Overview

In this important lecture delivered at the University of Massachusetts, Edward Said takes aim at one of the central tenets of recent foreign policy thinking -- that conflicts between different and "clashing civilizations" (Western, Islamic, Confucian) characterize the contemporary world. "The real question is whether in the end we want to work for civilizations that are separate, or whether we should be taking the more integrative, but perhaps more difficult path, which is to see them as making one vast whole, whose exact contours are impossible for any person to grasp, but whose certain existence we can intuit and feel and study." - Edward Said

Production Countries

United States of America

Spoken Languages

English en

Cast

Edward Said

Crew

Sut Jhally

Director

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