{"product_id":"disordered-world-book-amin-maalouf-9781408815984","title":"Disordered World","description":"In this brilliant exploration of the post-9\/11 world, leading Lebanese novelist and intellectual Amin Maalouf sets out to understand how we have arrived at such disorder. He explores three different but related aspects of disorder: intellectual (manifested in an unleashing of statements on identity that allow no possibility of peaceful co-existence or debate), economic and financial (that is exhausting the earth's resources), and climatic (the result of turning a blind eye to the consequences of rampant industrialization).   Instead of seeing the current disorder of the post-9\/11 world as ‘a clash of civilisations' Maalouf sees it as the ‘exhaustion of two civilisations', a period in which humanity has reached its threshold of ‘moral incompetence'. Islam and the West have theoretical coherence, he says, but in practice each betrays its true ideals: the West is unfaithful to its own enlightenment values, which has discredited it in the eyes of the people to whom it has introduced democracy by force; while Islam finds itself condemned to a headlong rush into radicalism. These symmetrical disorders are only some of the elements in a global disorder that requires humanity as a whole to take responsibility for its future and face up to the urgent tasks such as climate change and the global financial crisis that threaten us all.   Disordered World is a plea by one of the major writers of the last twenty years for intelligence, tolerance and a sense of urgency in order that we develop an adult vision of our patrimony, our beliefs, our differences and the future of the planet which is our common home.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49552044097809,"sku":"GOR006794569","price":11.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51075942187281,"sku":"GOR008779663","price":11.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1408815982.jpg?v=1750889840","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/disordered-world-book-amin-maalouf-9781408815984","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}