by Jean Ziegler · Carl Bertelsmann · tapa dura · ISBN 9783570011324
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«Der Hass auf den Westen» is the historical-political essay by Jean Ziegler, published by Carl Bertelsmann in hardback (288 pages, in German).
Ziegler argues that the South's resentment towards the West is a memory of slavery and colonialism, prolonged in the inequality of globalised capitalism. The author calls on the West to assume responsibilities and proposes conditions for dialogue, with experiences from Nigeria to Bolivia and the voices of Aimé Césaire and Wole Soyinka.
Original title: «La Haine de l'Occident»; German translation by Hainer Kober. The German edition appeared in 2009.
For those interested in geopolitics, the history of colonialism and North-South relations.
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."
