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18
Trevor-Roper,
Hitler’s Table Talk,
p. 361.
HEROES AND MERCHANTS
1
Quoted in George Mosse,
Fallen Soldiers
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 70.
2
Quoted in Gordon Craig,
The Germans
(London: Penguin, 1991), p. 234.
3
Werner Sombart,
Händler und Helden
(Munich: Dunckler und Hum-bolt, 1915), p. 55.
4
Ibid., p. 113.
5
Ernst Jünger,
Annaeherungen: Drogen und Rausch
(Stuttgart: Ernest Klett Verlag, 1978), p. 13.
6
Quoted in Hamid Dabashi,
Theology of Discontent
(New York: New York University Press, 1993), p. 76.
7
Ibid., p. 92.
8
Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
(New York: HarperPerennial, 1988), p. 245.
9
Jacques Vergès,
Le salaud lumineux
(Paris: Éditions Bernard Lafont, 1990), p. 42.
10
Ibid., p. 82.
11
Tocqueville,
Democracy in America,
p. 660.
12
Friedrich Georg Jünger,
Krieg und Krieger
(Berlin: Junker und Dannhaupt, 1930), p. 25.
13
Quoted in Ivan Morris,
The Nobility of Failure
(London: Secker and Warburg, 1975), p. 320.
14
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney,
Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002).
15
Ibid., p. 139.
16
Quoted in Christophe Jaffrelot,
The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), p. 60.
17
Quoted in Ohnuki-Tierney,
Kamikaze,
p. 197.
18
Quoted in Morris,
The Nobility of Failure,
p. 284.
19
August 23, 1996. Translation by Muhammad Masari.
20
Quoted in Aurel Kolnai,
War Against the West
(London: Victor Gollancz, 1938), p. 116.
MIND OF THE WEST
1
Isaiah Berlin,
The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas,
ed. Henry Hardy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997), p. 246.
2
Quoted from I. I. Nepluyev’s
Memoirs
in Liah Greenfeld,
Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992), p. 225.
3
Quoted in Thomas Masaryk,
The Spirit of Russia
(London: George Allen & Unwin, 1955), 2:255.
4
Quoted in James M. Edie, James P. Scanlan, and Mary Barbara Zeldin, eds., with the collaboration of George L. Kline,
Russian Philosophy
(Chicago: Quadrangle, 1965), 2:32-33.
5
Ibid., 2:52.
6
Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
Notes from Underground,
in
Existentialism: From Dostoevsky to Sartre,
ed. with an introduction by Walter Kaufmann (Cleveland and New York: Meridian/World, 1956), p. 67.
THE WRATH OF GOD
1
Karl Marx,
On the Jewish Question,
quoted in
Writings of the Young Marx on Philosophy and Society,
ed. and trans. Loyd D. Easton and Kurt H. Guddat (New York: Anchor, 1967), pp. 216-49.
2
Ervand Abrahamian,
Iran: Between Two Revolutions
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982), p. 470.
3
Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon,
The Age of Sacred Terror
(New York: Random House, 2002), p. 1.
4
Ibid., p. 68.
5
Ibid., p. 207.
6
K. K. Aziz,
The Making of Pakistan: A Study in Nationalism
(London: Chatto & Windus, 1967), p. 105.
7
Anwar Syed,
Pakistan: Islam, Politics and National Solidarity
(Lahore, 1948), p. 32.
8
Ibid., p. 55.
9
Ibid., p. 56.
10
Syed Abdul Vahid, ed.,
Thoughts and Reflections of Iqbal
(Lahore: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, 1964), p. 99.
11
Quoted in Gilles Kepel,
Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam
(London: Taurus, 2002), p. 47.
12
Kepel,
Jihad,
p. 55.
13
Ruth Woodsmall,
Moslem Woman Enter the New World
(London: George Allen & Unwin, 1936), p. 33.
14
Lois Beck and Nikki Keddie, introduction to
Women in the Muslim World
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1978), p. 8.
SEEDS OF REVOLUTION
1. Hans Kohn,
Living in a World Revolution,
quoted in Amos Elon,
The Israelis
(New York: Penguin, 1992).
[INDEX]
Abbt, Thomas
Abu Dharr
Afghanistan
‘Aflaq, Michel
Al-e Ahmed, Jalal
Alexander I (czar)
Aristotle
Assassins
Atatürk, Kemal
Atta, Mohammed
Ba’ath Party
Babylon
Berlin
Berlin, Isaiah
bin Laden, Osama
as civil engineer
on Crusader-Zionism
death cult language of
Manichaeism of
religious impulse of
as Wahhabi true believer
on World Trade Center
Blake, William
Blueher, Hans
Britain
citizenship as open to all
“civilizing mission” of
London
and Saudi Arabia
Sombart on
capitalism
anticapitalism in Occidentalism
commodity fetishism attributed to
distaste for
Japanese nationalists on
Jews associated with
kamikazes opposing
local traditions affected by
Mao Zedong’s war against
as not heroic
transmission to colonial subjects
as victory of town over country
World Trade Center as symbol of
Chernyshevsky, Nikolai
China
Beijing
binding of women’s feet in
colonialism in
Manichaeic communities in
Mao Zedong
nativists versus Westernizers in
secularism in
Shanghai
Western ideas borrowed by
Christianity
Christian kamikazes
Japanese modernizers on
Manichaeism and
martyrs
on matter
modernizing without letting in
as people of the book
Protestantism
Reformation
Russian conversion to
cities
fear as haunting
Islamic urbanism
Khmer Rouge’s war against
lonely outsider in
Mao Zedong’s war against
methods of attacking
in old colonial periphery
Taliban revolt against
colonialism.
See
imperialism
commodity fetishism
community
cosmopolitanism
Crystal Palace (London)
death cult
in Germany
in Japan
among Muslims
in Taliban
Vergès on
democracy
Japanese nationalist opposition to
mediocrity associated with
metropolitan culture promoting
Nazi Germany’s attack on
protecting
transmission to colonial subjects
will to grandeur lacking in
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
dress
economic liberalism
blind faith in the market
Japanese nationalist opposition to
Romanticism on
slums as consequence of
See also
capitalism
Edo (former name for Tokyo)
Egypt
Eliot, T. S.
Engels, Friedrich
Enlightenment
Abbt and German
British freedom and
Counter-Enlightenment
Eliot’s pessimism about
French Revolution and
in Meiji Japan
Romanticism contrasted with
Russian officers influenced by
valid criticism of
West as source of
equality
Fanon, Frantz
fascism
as appealing to mediocre men
on will
See also
Nazism
female sexuality
Atta fearing
in Babylon
image of metropolis as whore
Islamic concern with
Qutb on American
short skirts
Fichte, Johann Gottlieb
Fontane, Theodor
France
“civilizing mission” of
French Revolution
German Romantic opposition to
Napoleon
Paris
rhetoric of self-sacrifice in
veil as symbol of resistance to
fundamentalism
German Romanticism
French culture opposed by
Husri influenced by
organismic view of society of
Russian thought rooted in
Germany
Berlin
Japan modeling constitution on
liberalism in
pan-Germanism
philosophy and literature as political substitute in
rhetoric of self-sacrifice in
Weimar Republic
Westernization seen as cause of World War I defeat of
See also
German Romanticism; Nazism
globalization
Gowalkar, M. S.
hairstyles
Hayashi Fusao
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Heidegger, Martin
Herder, Johann Gottfried von
heroism
of Leontiev’s poetry
reasonableness contrasted with
See also
self-sacrifice
Herzl, Theodor
Hezbollah
Hindu nationalism
Hitler, Adolf
Hollywood movies
holy war
hubris
Human, Mahmud
Husri, Sati’
Hussein, Saddam
idolatry
Islam on
Shari’ati and
two forms of
imperialism
colonial guilt
colonialism
European
globalization seen as
Japanese
justifications of
kamikazes opposing
Mao Zedong’s war against
scientism as
trade associated with
U.S.
Western ideas in revolt against
World Trade Center as symbol of
India
individual freedom
Hindu nationalists rejecting
Japanese nationalist opposition to
in London
metropolitan culture promoting
seen as threat
trade associated with
individualism
Chinese rejection of
cities associated with
Hindu nationalists opposing
Hitler opposing
Iqbal on
and morality
Qutb on
industrialization
Iqbal, Muhammad
Iran
Iraq
Islam
Arabs shedding Muslim blood
on collective morality
death cult in
on idolatry
Manichaeism rejected by
martyrs
modernizing without becoming clone of the West
nativists versus Westernizers in
religious Occidentalism
separation of church and state and
Sharia
law
United States demonized in
urbanism in
veil for women
Wahhabism
West as not at war against
Israel
Japan
Edo
emperor cult of
gangster films of 1950s
Germany as constitutional model for
idolatry in
imperialism of
kamikazes
Kyoto
Meiji period
modernity opposed in
nativists versus Westernizers in
as now target of Occidentalism
State Shinto
Tokyo
Westernization of
Jerusalem
Jessup, Henry Harris
Jews
anti-Semitism as reaction to French Revolution
on Babylon
cities associated with
German
history in religion of
and idolatry
Japanese anti-Semitism
Muslims blame for World Trade Center attack
Muslims declare holy war against
Orthodox
Qutb’s anti-Semitism
at Royal Exchange
Taleqani on
Jünger, Ernst
Jünger, Friedrich Georg
Kabul
kamikazes
Khmer Rouge
Kireyevsky, Ivan
Kireyevsky, Peter
Kohn, Hans
Koljevic, Nikola
Körner, Karl Theodor
Kyoto
Lebanon
Leontiev, Konstantin
liberalism
German
Leontiev on
Nazi attack on
as not heroic
organismic view of society contrasted with
protecting
seen as dithering
See also
economic liberalism
London
Manchester
Manichaeism
Mao Zedong
Marx, Karl
on commodity fetishism

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