West and East are categories of thought that have evolved from Roman legal experience to the contemporary era. The caesura with the administrative and political division of the Roman Empire became a fracture with the rise of Islam. Western civilization has since then viewed the East as other than its own. The characteristic phenomena of terrorism, immigration, and all other manifestations of this otherness have accentuated a distrustful, if not downright hostile, vision. On the path toward a new world, some see the possibility of a rebirth of Europe as a guide, while others see a fusion already accomplished because the East is already contained within the West.
DALL’IMPERO DIVISO ALLA PAURA MODERNA DELL’ISLAM STORIA, DIRITTO, IDENTITÀ
luigi sandirocco
2025-01-01
Abstract
West and East are categories of thought that have evolved from Roman legal experience to the contemporary era. The caesura with the administrative and political division of the Roman Empire became a fracture with the rise of Islam. Western civilization has since then viewed the East as other than its own. The characteristic phenomena of terrorism, immigration, and all other manifestations of this otherness have accentuated a distrustful, if not downright hostile, vision. On the path toward a new world, some see the possibility of a rebirth of Europe as a guide, while others see a fusion already accomplished because the East is already contained within the West.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
