Hegel in the Arab World: Modernity, Colonialism, and Freedom

ISBN-13: 9783319780658 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 160 str.

Lorella Ventura

Opis

Lorella Ventura discusses the reception of Hegelian thought and outlines a conceptual grid to help interpret the historical, cultural, and political events that have affected the Arab region in the last two centuries, and shed light on some aspects of its complex relationship with the western world.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

Part I. Hegel, the East and the question of “modernity”

2. Widespread views in Hegel's time

3. World history and the role of peoples

4. Hegel's view of Islam

5. The “modern” West and the non-Western world

Part II. The influence of Hegel's thought in the XIX century

6. Translations and the transmission of “modern” ideas in Muhammad ʿAlī's Egypt

7. The foreign universities in Syria: competition among the “West”

8. The Syrian Protestant College: between mission and education

9. Religion and reason in the view of the American missionaries in Syria

10. The presence of Hegelian elements in the thought of Josiah Strong

11. The textbooks of Syrian Protestant College and Hegel's philosophy of history

12. The Université Saint-Joseph and French culture

Part III. The contemporary reception

13. The direct reception of Hegel as a recent phenomenon: Syria and Lebanon

14. Hegel today: conversations with Yūsuf Salāma and Joseph Maʿalūf

15. Conversations with Ahmad Barqāwī and George Saddiqnī

16. Hegel's philosophy of history and the thought of Nadrah al-Yāzajī

17. Dialectics and freedom: the interpretation of Hegel in Syria

18. The reception of Hegel in Egypt and the “Spirit of time” (Zeitgeist)

Appendix. Hegel’s works translated into Arabic

O autorze

Lorella Ventura is "Cultore della materia” (expert of the subject) in History of Islamic Countries at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. 

Blurb

Hegel's philosophy has been of fundamental importance for the development of contemporary thought and for the very representation of Western modernity. This book investigates Hegel’s influence in the Arab world, generally considered "other" and far from the West, focusing specifically on Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt. Lorella Ventura discusses the reception of Hegelian thought and outlines a conceptual grid to help interpret the historical, cultural, and political events that have affected the Arab region in the last two centuries, and shed light on some aspects of its complex relationship with the western world.