Dall'Occidentalismo all'Orientalismo

From Orientalism to Occidentalism - This paper presents the theoretical basic features of Occidentalism described as a new scientific research project, pursuing an alternative and opposite investigation in comparison to Orientalism. Occidentalism is produced by cultures of the periphery, and its starting point is an informed critique of the images of the West produced in the center, in order to promote the development in the periphery of an endogenous ability to create culture on its own, once liberated from the traditional subjection to the culture of the center. Furthermore, the paper presents and describes Occidentalism as a new possibility in creating a new world consciousness and as a new critical model to think of the very idea of world history.