Night Waves - The Clash of Civilisations?, George Grosz, Simon Heffer
Arts & Ideas
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4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2013
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Samuel Huntington’s essay ‘The Clash of Civilisations?’ was published twenty years ago; Philip Dodd and guests Douglas Murray, Maria Misra and Gideon Rose discuss the importance and relevance of the essay today. Karen Leeder reviews a new exhibition of the work of George Grosz which focuses on his satirical depictions of bourgeois life in Weimar Berlin. Simon Heffer on his new book High Minds, which explores 1840s-1880s as a period which laid the foundations for modern Britain.
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| 0:40.7 | On tonight's programme, The Clash of Civilisations. |
| 0:44.8 | On the 20th anniversary of Samuel Huntingdon's essay, |
| 0:48.3 | we ask whether it illuminates the Nairobi killings, |
| 0:52.2 | Europe's anxieties around the Nicarb soon. |
| 0:55.9 | Falling in love again, never wanted to. |
| 1:02.6 | What am I to do? |
| 1:05.4 | I can't help it. |
| 1:08.0 | The world of Weimar in the works of the German artist George Gross, |
| 1:12.6 | satiric historian of plutocrats, bloated by lust and wealth. |
| 1:17.8 | A new exhibition allows us to see if the stock view is accurate. |
| 1:21.7 | Also, the conservative writer Simon Heffer celebrates high-mindedness |
| 1:26.3 | in a new book about the transformation of Victorian |
| 1:29.1 | society. I'll talk with him later. But first, the US had won the Cold War. It was at the peak |
| 1:36.6 | of its power in the early 1990s. The Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington dropped into |
| 1:43.0 | this world an essay, The Clash of Civilisations, |
| 1:46.8 | warning that the conflicts of the future would probably not be primarily ideological, but cultural. |
| 1:53.8 | The conflict of civilizations differentiated above all by religion. The West versus Islam, for example. For some, especially after 9-11, the essay seemed prophetic. For others, it seemed to be part of the problem, simplifying complex questions. This year is the essay's 20th anniversary. And given what happened in Kenya last week, the ongoing Afghan war as well as many other things. |
| 2:18.5 | We brought together journalist-encommodator Douglas Murray and Oxford historian Maria Misra to discuss the essay's rights and wrongs. |
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