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Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective
Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab
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Paperback. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; HRAX; HRH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 27. Weight in Grams: 692. Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective. 496 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPS; HRAX; HRH. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 27. Weight: 688.
During the second half of the twentieth century, the Arab intellectual and political scene polarized between a search for totalizing doctrines-nationalist, Marxist, and religious-and radical critique. Arab thinkers were reacting to the disenchanting experience of postindependence Arab states, as well as to authoritarianism, intolerance, and failed development. They were also responding to successive defeats by Israel, humiliation, and injustice. The first book to take stock of these critical responses, this volume illuminates the relationship between cultural and political critique in the work of major Arab thinkers, and it connects Arab debates on cultural malaise, identity, and authenticity to the postcolonial ... Read more
During the second half of the twentieth century, the Arab intellectual and political scene polarized between a search for totalizing doctrines-nationalist, Marxist, and religious-and radical critique. Arab thinkers were reacting to the disenchanting experience of postindependence Arab states, as well as to authoritarianism, intolerance, and failed development. They were also responding to successive defeats by Israel, humiliation, and injustice. The first book to take stock of these critical responses, this volume illuminates the relationship between cultural and political critique in the work of major Arab thinkers, and it connects Arab debates on cultural malaise, identity, and authenticity to the postcolonial ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231144896
SKU
V9780231144896
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About Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab
Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab is a research fellow at the German Orient Institute in Beirut. She has studied in Beirut and Fribourg, Switzerland, and has taught in Lebanon at the American University of Beirut and at the University of Balamand, and in the United States at Columbia University and Yale University. She is the author of The Theory of Social Action ... Read more
Reviews for Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective
A must read for all those who want to understand the Arab world's cultural predicament.
Issa J. Boullata The Middle East Journal [An] outstanding contribution that does an excellent job of exposing the self-analysis of contemporary Arab culture.
Yoav Di-Capua H-Levant ...a very important contribution to the field of Arab intellectual history...a much-need addition to our field.
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Issa J. Boullata The Middle East Journal [An] outstanding contribution that does an excellent job of exposing the self-analysis of contemporary Arab culture.
Yoav Di-Capua H-Levant ...a very important contribution to the field of Arab intellectual history...a much-need addition to our field.
... Read more