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Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
by Ian Buruma, Avishai Margalit

I could think that its heavily discussed at the moment in anthropology, but I am not in that topic. People in that topic didn't manage to get a nickname for ethno::log ;-)

8 hours ago Time Magazine published also an review.

CARRIER, JAMES G. 1992. Occidentalism. American Ethnologist 19(2): 195-212.

NADER, L. 1989. Orientalism, Occidentalism, and the Control of Women. Cultural Dynamics 2(3): 323-355.

I just read the review in Time Magazine to which Kerleone has pointed. If it retells the core of the book correctly, then the book falls a bit short, IMHO. Because: The answer to the question "Why do they [the Arabs] hate us [the US-Americans]." is given on a purely intellectual level, a level of discourse, of ideas. The hands-on, real-world causes like US-American global interventions, both military and economic, are not mentioned at all. The argument 'the stereotypes out of which the Others construct their view of the Occident come from western discourses and history of ideas' hides another infamy: The Orientals are intellectually unable to generate their own stereotypes -- even those they have to borrow from the West. That may sound a bit far-fetched, but I am always reminded of the history lessons I had to receive at school. The succesful conquest of the Americas, especially by the spanish Conquistadores, was always attributed to the technological superiority of the Spaniards -- especially in respect to weaponry. Then, with a sigh of regret and sorrow, it was said, to what cruel use this superiority was put. But behind all this humanistic concernment always a stressing of the superiority was hidden -- at least it seems so from my vantage point.

Edit: I just realized the subtitle of Christopher John Farah's review of the book at Salon.com: "Occidentalism" offers a grand theory about why Arabs and Muslims feel the way they do about the West -- but ignores what the West has done to them."

Well said Mr. Farah, well said!