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This book of political theory reflects on how cultures imagine their barbarians in the form of essentialized others, focusing specifically on the kinds of barbarism associated with a civilization devoted to technological progress.

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Our swiftly evolving globalized world marks both the end of history and geography heretofore known to us. This erosion and eclipse of time and space has resulted in great waves of human migration that have placed us face to face with the stranger, the barbarian. This is a new answer to the old question about what one should do when encountering the Other on our doorsteps. Here we are offered a new ethic for the old ethic, the ancient Code of Hospitality (xενíα). Here Toivo Koivukoski is doing what he does best, offering new ways for seeing the old and extraordinary ways for seeing the ordinary. -- Tom Darby, Carleton University

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Chapter 1: Outer Barbarians Chapter 2: Beyond Barbarism- Love Chapter 3: Barbarism New and Old Chapter 4: Barbarism and Civilization

The New Barbarism and the Modern West

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      Publisher Rlpg/Galleys
      Published 8 June 2014
      ISBN-13 9780739189993
      978-0739189993
      ISBN-10 0739189999

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book of political theory reflects on how cultures imagine their barbarians in the form of essentialized others, focusing specifically on the kinds of barbarism associated with a civilization devoted to technological progress.

      Trade Review
      Our swiftly evolving globalized world marks both the end of history and geography heretofore known to us. This erosion and eclipse of time and space has resulted in great waves of human migration that have placed us face to face with the stranger, the barbarian. This is a new answer to the old question about what one should do when encountering the Other on our doorsteps. Here we are offered a new ethic for the old ethic, the ancient Code of Hospitality (xενíα). Here Toivo Koivukoski is doing what he does best, offering new ways for seeing the old and extraordinary ways for seeing the ordinary. -- Tom Darby, Carleton University

      Table of Contents
      Chapter 1: Outer Barbarians Chapter 2: Beyond Barbarism- Love Chapter 3: Barbarism New and Old Chapter 4: Barbarism and Civilization

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