Batı

(İng. West)(Ayrıca bknz. Batı Uygarlığı)

Göndermeler

Mesnevi'den

Senin yarasaya benzer duygun, batıya koşmakta; inci saçan duygun doğuya gitmekte.

Bloch'dan

Outside Europe, in distant Japan, it so happened that a system of personal and territorial subordination, very similar to Western feudalism, was gradually formed over against a monarchy which, as in the West, was much older than itself. But there the two institutions coexisted without interpenetration. Batı'da olduğu gibi kendisinden çok daha eski olan bir monarşi karşısında Batı feodalizmine çok benzeyen kişisel ve teritoryal bir tahakküm düzeninin aşama aşama biçimlenmesi hasbelkader Avrupa dışında, uzaklarda Japonya'da yaşandı. Ama orada iki kurum bir birinin içine geçmeden bir arada bulundu. (Çev. DrOS)

Diğer

Both orientalism and Western civilization begin in the textualist position that civilizations have essences, and that these essences are best seen in the Great Books they have produced. (Who decides what's a Great Book, or what connection it might have to the lived lives of men and women in particular places and times is never satisfactorily explained.) The textualist position foreshortens history, annihilates change, and levels difference the better to represent an image of the past in dramatic form – either as tragedy, as in the case of Islamic civilization, or as triumph, as in the case of the rise of the West. In either case, it is a story whose rhythms are guided by the ineluctable working out of civilizational essences allegedly encoded in foundation texts. Thus we get the history of the West as the story of freedom and rationality, or the history of the East (pick an East, any East) as the story of despotism and cultural stasis.