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Informationen zum Autor Tarik Sabry is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Theory! University of Westminster. He is co-editor of the 'Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication'. Klappentext In this groundbreaking book! Tarik Sabry is seeking out the terrain for best understanding the experience of being modern in transitional societies. He adopts a dynamic! ethnographically based approach to the meanings of modernness in the Arab context and! within a relational framework! focuses on structures of thought! everydayness and self-referentiality to explore the process of building a bridge that rejoins the modern in Arab thought with the modern in Arab lived experience. In bringing together modernity as a philosophical category with the bridging spaces of Arab everyday life! Sabry is offering fresh methods of comprehending the question of what it means to be modern in the Arab world today. Bringing together modernity as a philosophical category with the bridging spaces of Arab everyday life, this title offers fresh methods of comprehending the question of what it means to be modern in the Arab world. Zusammenfassung Bringing together modernity as a philosophical category with the bridging spaces of Arab everyday life! this title offers fresh methods of comprehending the question of what it means to be modern in the Arab world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Content:Chapter 1: On Encountering and ModernnessChapter 2: Contemporary Arab Thought and the Struggle for AuthenticityChapter 3: Arab Popular Cultures and Everyday LifeChapter 4: The Bridge and the Queue as Spaces of EncounteringChapter 5: Modernness as Multiple Narrative-Category: Encountering the WestChapter 6: Still Searching for the Arab Present Cultural Tense: Arab Cultural StudiesChapter 7: ConclusionNotes BibliographyIndex
