Culture and hegemony in the colonial Middle East
By: Yaseen Noorani.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230623194
Subjects: Political culture -- Egypt -- History; Hegemony -- Egypt -- History; Nationalism -- Egypt -- History; Ideals (Philosophy) -- Social aspects -- Egypt -- History; Egyptian literature, Modern -- History and criticism; Political culture -- Middle East -- History; Hegemony -- Middle East -- History; Egypt -- Politics and government -- 1882-1952; Middle East -- Politics and government; Middle East -- Colonial influence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sovereign virtue and the emergence of nationality; title: Classical virtue and sovereign authority; title: Classical virtue and collective sovereignty; title: The death of the hero and the birth of bourgeois class publicity; title: Order, agency, and the economy of desire : Islamic reformism and Arab nationalism; title: The political economy of tyranny and enslavement : al-Kawakibi; title: The nation without qualities : Sati' al-Husri; title: The moral transformation of femininity and the rise of the public-private division; title: Fiction, hegemony, and the aesthetic dimension of citizenship; title: Excess, rebellion, and revolution : Egyptian modernity in the "trilogy" of Nagib Mahfuz; title: Epilogue.