This "grandly illuminating study of two centuries of anti-Western ideas" ( Foreign Affairs ) traces the historical roots of a virulent set of stereotypes about Westerners and the West, a cluster of notions and prejudices that Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit call Occidentalism. The path does not lead back to Islam but, in fact, back to the West itself. From nineteenth-century Germany and Russia to twentieth-century Japan, China, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, Buruma and Margalit track the spread of these noxious ideas. Drawing on their formidable range and gift for synthesis to place modern terrorists in a long continuum of enemies of Western liberal society, Buruma and Margalit have written a book of extraordinary clarity and wide-ranging relevance.

★作者简介★

◆伊恩•布鲁玛（Ian Buruma）,当代欧洲知名学者及作家。1951年12月28日生于荷兰,早年在莱顿大学攻读中国文学,后到日本大学艺术部专研电影,并在当地旅居七年。曾担任《远东经济评论》驻香港记者,并以评论家的身份定期为《旁观者》《纽约书评》等杂志撰稿。他的大部分著作聚焦于亚洲文化,特别是20世纪的日本。其主要作品有《面具下的欲望日本》《罪恶的代价：德国与日本的战争记忆》《伊恩•布鲁玛的日本访谈：从村上春树到广岛》《阿姆斯特丹的谋杀：电影人梵高之死与宽容的限制》等。

◆阿维赛•玛格里特（Avishai Margalit）,以色列希伯来大学哲学教授,曾任教于牛津大学、哈佛大学、柏林自由大学及马克思普朗克研究所、普林斯顿大学和纽约大学等。著有《The Decent Society》《Idolatry:co-authored with Moshe Halbertal and Naomi Goldblum》《The Ethics of Memory》等作品。