Islam and the West - Critical Perspectives on Modernity

Informationen zum Autor Michael J. Thompson is Professor of Political Science at William Paterson University. He is the author of The Republican Reinvention of Radicalism, The Perversion of Subjectivity: Toward a Critical Theory of Consciousness and The Politics of Inequality (2007). His many edited volumes include The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory and Georg Lukács Reconsidered: Critical Essays on Politics, Philosophy, and Aesthetics (2011). Klappentext The essays in Islam and the West: Critical Perspectives on Modernity approach the interactions of Islam, the West, and modernity through overlapping social, historical, economic, cultural, and philosophical layers. Viewed through this complex prism of analysis, the full dimensions of the relationship become clear and the result is a deeper understanding of the nature of modernity and how other societies can relate to each other. Zusammenfassung The essays in this volume approach the interactions of Islam! the West and modernity through overlapping social! historical! economic! cultural! and philosophical layers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Muslims and the West: A Paradigm for Polarization Chapter 3 Islam, Modernity and the Dialectic of Dogmatism Chapter 4 The Deficiency of Democracy in the Islamic World Chapter 5 The Roots of Terror Chapter 6 Europe in the Mirror of the Contemporary Middle East: Aspects of Modern European History Reconsidered Chapter 7 Deconstructing Arab-Islamic History: A Discussion of its Evolutionary Dynamics Chapter 8 Critical Theory and the Islamic Encounter with Modernity Chapter 9 Second Letter on Algeria Chapter 10 A Wild Goose Chase: To Cope, Must Islam "Westernize"?

Product details

• Authors: Michael Thompson, Michael J. Thompson
• Assisted by: Michael Thompson (Editor), Michael J Thompson (Editor), Michael J. Thompson (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.08.2003
• EAN: 9780742531079
• ISBN: 978-0-7425-3107-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Logos: Perspectives on Modern Society and Culture; Logos: Perspectives on Modern; Logos: Perspectives on Modern; Logos: Perspectives on Modern Society and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Islam, Cultural Studies, RELIGION / Islam / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Islamic Studies, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities