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  title info:
    title: Contemporary Arab thought
    sub title: cultural critique in comparative perspective
  name:
    name part: Kassab, Elizabeth Suzanne
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    edition: Second edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: cii, 496 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "In the last third of the twentieth century, the Arab intellectual and political scene polarized between totalizing doctrines - nationalist, Marxist, and religious - and radical critique. Arab thinkers were reacting to the disenchanting experience of postindependence and a widespread sense of malaise, as well as to authoritarianism, intolerance, injustice, failed development, and successive defeats by Israel. The foundational account of these responses, Contemporary Arab Thought illuminates the relationship between cultural and political critique in the work of major Arab thinkers. Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab also connects Arab debates to the postcolonial issues of Latin America and Africa, revealing the shared struggles of different regions. Since its first publication in 2009, this book has stood as the foremost account of contemporary Arab debates on culture, philosophy, modernity, tradition, identity, and liberation. It is widely used in Middle Eastern studies courses, and it has become a classic in the field of Arab intellectual history. Contemporary Arab Thought now features an extensive new introduction that reconsiders post-1967 Arab intellectual history in light of the 2011 uprisings and the upheavals that have occurred over the intervening years. Kassab critically reflects on the book's arguments and the responses it has provoked, and she surveys the new preoccupations that have emerged in Arab debates since 2011. As crises again overtake the Middle East, this landmark work continues to offer indispensable insight into the richness of contemporary Arab thought."--
  table of contents: Introduction to the Second Edition: The Deferred Dream Explodes -- Introduction: Cultural Malaise and Cultural Identity in Twentieth-Century Western, Postcolonial, and Arab Debates -- 1. The First Modern Arab Cultural Renaissance, or Nahda: From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to the Mid-Twentieth Century -- 2. Critique After the 1967 Defeat -- 3. Marxist, Epistemological, and Psychological Readings of Major Conferences on Cultural Decline, Renewal, and Authenticity -- 4. Critique in Islamic Theology -- 5. Secular Critique -- 6. Breaking the Postcolonial Solitude: Arab Motifs in Comparative Perspective -- Conclusion: The New Nahda Impulses, Reclaiming the Right to Freedom and Life.
  note: Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: ma-----
  subject:
    topic: Civilization, Arab
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Criticism (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Criticism
    geographic: Arab countries
  subject:
    topic: Civilisation arabe
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Criticisme
  classification: DS36.8 .K356 2025
  classification: 909/.0974927
  identifier: 9780231211666
  identifier: 023121166X
  identifier: 9780231211673
  identifier: 0231211678
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: UKMGB
    record creation date: 250319
    record change date: 20250804165017.0
    record identifier: in00005655891
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng