Machine generated contents note: West and non-West -- Western rationality and postcolonialism -- Rationality, theory and thinking -- One.The problem -- At home -- Abroad -- Two.Identities -- Who are we? -- Who are the `others'? -- Why is the West more `advanced'? -- Why is the non-West a `threat'? -- Three.Ideas -- Individual -- Society -- Freedom -- Faith -- Market -- Change -- Four.Interpretations -- To think is to theorise -- To theorise is to explain -- To explain is to act -- To act is to think (again) -- EPILOGUE Three questions -- Secularism -- Human rights -- Sovereignty.