The crisis of the Arab intellectual
Subtitle: traditionalism or historicism?
By: By Abdallah Laroui ; translated from the French by Diarmid Cammell.
Series: Campus ; 184
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Socialism -- Arab countries; Arab countries -- Intellectual life
Description: This book intends to review the meaning of contemporary in Arab intellectual history. It presents a classification of four periods in modern Arab intellectual history; they are the following: 1) Nahda: the great Arab renaissance period, from 1850 to 1914. The Nahda sought through translation and vulgarization to assimilate the great achievements of modern European civilization; 2) the period between the two wars characterized by the the development of thoughts which played a leading role in social movements, especially in nationalist movements; 3) the period the Arab nationalist experiments on the unionist ideology; and 4) the period of moral and political crisis after the defeat in the 1967 War. The central thesis of this book is that the concept of history - a concept playing a capital role in modern thought - is in fact peripheral to all the ideologies that have dominated the Arab world till now.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Translation of La crise des intellectuels arabes.