Arabic Thought Against the Authoritarian Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Present

ISBN-13: 9781316644195 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 455 str.

Jens Hanssen; Max Weiss

Opis

The Middle East is often depicted as a landscape of war, authoritarianism, and social unrest. This book, full of cutting-edge scholarship, illuminates underappreciated aspects of the intellectual and cultural history of the post-war Arab world and explores the contributions of Arab writers, poets, and intellectuals to politics, culture and social change.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

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.