Book contents
- Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
- Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Constructing Europe
- Part III The City’s New Pleasures
- Part IV Identities on the Mediterranean Shore
- Part V The End of the European Dream
- 20 The Lack of an Anti-European Perspective
- 21 Economies of Violence and Challenges to the Thalassocentric Order
- 22 The Anti-Western Rebellion on the Eve of the Belle Époque
- 23 Deconstructing the European Female
- 24 The “Unraveling” of Port City Society
- Part VI Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean Revisited
- Bibliography
- Index
20 - The Lack of an Anti-European Perspective
from Part V - The End of the European Dream
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 October 2020
Book contents
- Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
- Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Table
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Constructing Europe
- Part III The City’s New Pleasures
- Part IV Identities on the Mediterranean Shore
- Part V The End of the European Dream
- 20 The Lack of an Anti-European Perspective
- 21 Economies of Violence and Challenges to the Thalassocentric Order
- 22 The Anti-Western Rebellion on the Eve of the Belle Époque
- 23 Deconstructing the European Female
- 24 The “Unraveling” of Port City Society
- Part VI Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean Revisited
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter discusses the Ottoman sphere in relationship to anti-Western, anti-materialist thought as it evolved in various locations throughout the nineteenth century. Unlike the eloquent and persuasive writings of authors such as Dostoevsky, Ottoman texts turning against the West are written in a vain of disappointment that the West did not keep its part of a bargain or failed to honor the Ottomans' achievements, rather than an intellectual challenge to modernity.
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- Port Cities of the Eastern MediterraneanUrban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire, pp. 347 - 356Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020