Problematics of Enlightenment - Human Reason, North African Philosophy, and the Global South

The Problematics of Enlightenment: Human Reason, North African Philosophy, and the Global South argues that the claim that human reason-not inherited social institutions-is the ultimate source of justification is a universalizable principle whose actualization would make progress possible in Egypt and elsewhere in the Global South.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Initial Publication of Chapters
Translator's Introduction
Author's Introduction
Chapter 1: The Enlightenment
Chapter 2: Enlightenment and the Man on the Street
Chapter 3: Authenticity and Modernity in the Third World
Chapter 4: The Mystery of Tolstoy's Letter to Mohammed Abdu
Chapter 5: The Paradox of Ibn Rushd
Chapter 6: Ibn Rushd between Farah Antun and Mohammed Abdu
Chapter 7: Rifäa and Enlightenment
Chapter 8: Al- ¿Aqqad's Reception of Goethe in Light of the Enlightenment
Chapter 9: Louis Awad and the Enlightenment
Conclusion: The Problematic of Enlightenment and Culture
Bibliography
About the Author

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Mourad Wahba

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Mourad Wahba, Wahba Mourad
• Mitarbeit: Zeyad el Nabolsy (Übersetzung), Zeyad el Nabolsy (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 17.12.2024
• EAN: 9781666970647
• ISBN: 978-1-66697-064-7
• Seiten: 120
• Serie: African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, Egypt, Middle Eastern history, Philosophy of religion, HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt, PHILOSOPHY / African