by Jean Ziegler · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9783442156498
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«Der Hass auf den Westen» is the essay by Jean Ziegler, published by Goldmann Verlag in paperback, in German.
Starting from the hostility of the peoples of the South towards the North, Jean Ziegler examines how centuries of domination and plunder fuel resentment against the West. Between UN conference rooms and villages in Nigeria and Bolivia, he denounces the effects of globalized capitalism and the lack of responsibility of rich countries, and advocates for international relations based on justice.
Original title: «La Haine de l'Occident» (2008). Translated from the French by Hainer Kober. The 2011 German edition includes a new preface by the author.
For readers of political essays and history interested in the North-South debate.
Jean Ziegler is a Swiss former professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris, and former vice-president of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations Human Rights Council. He was previously Member of the Swiss Parliament for the Social Democrats from 1981 to 1999. He has also held several positions with the United Nations, especially as Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food from 2000 to 2008, and as a member of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council from 2008 to 2012. Ziegler has authored numerous works, is a lecturer, and is well known for this sentence: "A child who dies from hunger is a murdered child."
