Title: The clash of modernities : the Islamist challenge to Arab, Jewish, and Turkish nationalism /
Authors: Samman, Khaldoun.
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Nationalism Middle East Philosophy.; Civilization, Modern Philosophy; Nationalism Islamic countries.; Nationalism Israel; Nationalism Turkey; Nationalism Arab countries; Middle East Civilization Philosophy.; Middle East Civilization Western influences.
Contents: Introduction : a personal example of a temporal script -- The colonizer's time machine and the discourse of "becoming modern" -- The anti-Semitic gaze and the occidentalization of the Jew in Zionist and Israeli nationalism -- The Kemalist acquiescence to the colonizer's time machine -- Arab time-travelers and cultural schizophrenia -- The Islamist time machine and the rebellion against the colonizer's civilizational insult -- Women as the sign of the times -- Conclusion : thinking outside the time-space box of colonial modernity.