Thorsten Pattberg – Author of the East-West dichotomy; photo: Dong Guisheng

The East-West dichotomy is a manifesto that was first published as crude manuscript in 2009 and has since spread through the internet and has attracted over 293,000 unique visitors on this website alone. It deals with the conceptual contrast between Eastern and Western cultures and is now one of the most widely read texts in Asian Studies today. The Foreign Language Press in Beijing is going to publish a new edition in March 2013.

Thorsten Pattberg’s The East-West dichotomy (2009)

“The East-West dichotomy is a philosophical concept of ancient origin which claims that the two cultural hemispheres, East and West, developed diametrically opposed, one from the particular to the universal and the other from the universal to the particular; the East is more inductive while the West is more deductive. Together they form an equilibrium.”

# Featuring defining and thought-provoking chapters on:

* History
* Induction & deduction
* Asia-centrism
* Equilibrium
* Demography & Migration
* Cultural effects of the dichotomy
* Two successful models
* Two incommensurable realities
* The theory of power and to whom it belongs
* The problem of standard
* A loveless Darwinian desert
* The psychology of communion
* The problem with Nature
* Ideology, Gender and many more…

# Including over 345 references and hundreds of quotes from historical personalities

# Becoming the standard work on the East-West discourse

You may quote from this website by using the book’s reference:

Pattberg, Thorsten (2009), The East-West dichotomy, LoD Press, New York

ISBN-10: 0984209107

ISBN-13: 9780984209101 (paperback)

ISBN-10: 0984209107 (e-book)

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