The distinguished Moroccan philosopher Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, in this summary of his own work, examines the status of Arab thought in the late twentieth century. Al-Jabri rejects what he calls the current polarization of Arab thought between an imported modernism that disregards Arab tradition and a fundamentalism that would reconstruct the present in the image of an idealized past. Both past and present intellectual currents are examined. Al-Jabri first questions the current philosophical positions of the liberals, the Marxists, and the fundamentalists. Then he turns to history, exploring Arab philosophy in the tenth and twelfth centuries, a time of political and ideological struggle. In the writings of Ibn Hazm and Averroës, he identifies the beginnings of Arab rationalism, a rationalism he traces through the innovative fourteenth-century work of Ibn Khaldun. Al-Jabri offers both Western readers and his own compatriots a radical new approach to Arab thought, one that finds in the past the roots of an open, critical rationalism which he sees as emerging in the Arab world today.
| Autorius: | Mohammed 'Abed Al-Jabri |
| Leidėjas: | University of Texas Press |
| Išleidimo metai: | 1999 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 156 |
| ISBN-10: | 0292704801 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780292704800 |
| Formatas: | 216 x 140 x 9 mm. Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
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