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

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Edward Said: The Myth of "The Clash of Civilizations” (1998)

Directed by Sut Jhally

· 1h 00m

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

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Cast

Edward Said

Crew

Director
Sut Jhally
Editor
Sanjay Talreja

Details

Release date
1998-01-01
Runtime
1h 00m
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United States of America
Production
Media Education Foundation