Arabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age
Towards an Intellectual History of the Present
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- Jens Hanssen, University of Toronto
- Max Weiss, Princeton University, New Jersey
- Date Published: August 2019
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- isbn: 9781316644195
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In the wake of the Arab uprisings, the Middle East descended into a frenzy of political turmoil and unprecedented human tragedy which reinforced regrettable stereotypes about the moribund state of Arab intellectual and cultural life. This volume sheds important light on diverse facets of the post-war Arab world and its vibrant intellectual, literary and political history. Cutting-edge research is presented on such wide-ranging topics as poetry, intellectual history, political philosophy, and religious reform and cultural resilience all across the length and breadth of the Arab world, from Morocco to the Gulf States. This is an important statement of new directions in Middle East studies that challenges conventional thinking and has added relevance to the study of global intellectual history more broadly.
Read more- Showcases new approaches to the study of post-war Arab intellectual history
- Reconsiders liberalism, radicalism and authoritarianism in the modern Middle East
- Historically contextualizes the Arab uprisings
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'A much needed addition to our understanding of the Arab uprisings, their causes, and their meaning. While the political, social, economic, and cultural dimensions of the uprisings have been well explored, this book is unique inasmuch as it probes the overlooked role played by intellectuals in interpreting the Arab condition and articulating the complaints and demands of activists.' James L. Gelvin, University of California, Los Angeles, and author of The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know.
See more reviews'Spanning a wide range of thinkers, writers and struggles across the Arab world and from the 1940s to the present, this collection of essays by a stellar cast of scholars illustrates both the diversity and the continuities of postwar Arab intellectual history. Whether tracing the complex legacies of the nahda or the travails of the Arab left, Hanssen and Weiss's follow-up to their Arabic Thought beyond the Liberal Age scuttles popular fallacies about the sterility or atavism of Arab intellectual life, illuminates the deeper roots of the 2011–12 Arab uprisings, and makes available to English-language readers important voices that are too rarely heard outside the Middle East.' James McDougall, University of Oxford
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- Date Published: August 2019
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316644195
- length: 455 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 153 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.51kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: towards a postwar intellectual history of the Arab world Max Weiss and Jens Hanssen
Part I. Arab Intellectuals in an Age of Decolonization:
2. Changing the Arab intellectual guard: on the fall of the udabaʾ, 1940–60 Yoav Di-Capua
3. Arabic thought in the radical age: Emile Habibi, the Israeli communist party and the production of Arab Jewish radicalism, 1946–61 Orit Bashkin
4. Political praxis in the Gulf: Ahmad al-Khatib and the movement of Arab nationalists, 1948–69 Abdel Razzaq Takriti
5. Modernism in translation: poetry and intellectual history in Beirut Robyn Creswell
Part II. Culture and Ideology in the Shadow of Authoritarianism:
6. Regional specificities of modern Arab thought: Morocco since the liberal age Hosam Aboul-Ela
7. Sidelining ideology: Arab theory in the metropole and periphery, circa 1977 Fadi Bardawil
8. Mosaic, melting pot, pressure cooker: the religious, the secular, and the sectarian in twentieth-century Syrian social thought Max Weiss
9. Looking for 'the women question' in Algeria and Tunisia: ideas, political language and female actors before and after independence Natalya Vince
Part III. From (Neo)Liberalism to the 'Arab Spring' and Beyond:
10. Egyptian workers in the 'liberal age' and beyond Joel Beinin
11. The redemption of women's liberation: reviving Qasim Amin in contemporary Egypt Ellen McLarney
12. Turath as critique: Hassan Hanafi and the political subject in modern Arabic thought Yasmeen Daifallah
13. Summoning the spirit of Taha Husayn's enlightenment project: the Nahda revival of Qadaya wa-shahadat in the 1990s Suzanne Kassab
14. Revolution as ready-made: art, aesthetics, Arab uprisings Negar Azimi
15. For a third Nahda Elias Khoury
16. Where are the intellectuals in the Syrian revolution? Rosa Yasin Hasan
17. The intellectuals and the revolution in Syria Yasin al-Hajj Salih.
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