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seagull's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 stars tbh. I kind of was looking for more of a bite but I think it's a good book I'd want a lot of people to read.
brynhammond's review against another edition
4.0
3.5. With reservations.
I chased up a book by him on the strength of this more topical talk: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b081lkkj
also written up in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/09/western-civilisation-appiah-reith-lecture
It's one of the book's arguments from another angle: to make an idol of Western Civ is to ignore the interpenetration of cultures.
I chased up a book by him on the strength of this more topical talk: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b081lkkj
also written up in the Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/09/western-civilisation-appiah-reith-lecture
It's one of the book's arguments from another angle: to make an idol of Western Civ is to ignore the interpenetration of cultures.
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