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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Mourad Wahba

Product details

• Authors: Mourad Wahba, Wahba Mourad
• Assisted by: Zeyad el Nabolsy (Translation), Zeyad el Nabolsy (Translation)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2024
• EAN: 9781666970647
• ISBN: 978-1-66697-064-7
• No. of pages: 120
• Series: African Philosophy: Critical Perspectives and Global Dialogue
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, Egypt, Middle Eastern history, Philosophy of religion, HISTORY / Middle East / Egypt, PHILOSOPHY / African