Islam and the West - A Conversation With Jacques Derrida

Informationen zum Autor Mustapha Cherif is professor of philosophy and Islamic studies at the University of Algiers! a visiting professor at the College de France! and the author of L'Islam! tolerant ou intolerant? Teresa Lavender Fagan has translated numerous books for the University of Chicago Press. Klappentext In the spring of 2003! Derrida sat down for a public debate in Paris with Algerian intellectual Cherif. The two men explore questions of secularism and democracy; politics and religion and how the former manipulates the latter; and the parallels between xenophobia in the West and fanaticism among Islamists. Zusammenfassung Offers an opportunity to further readers understanding of Jaques Derrida's views on the key political and religious divisions of our time and an often moving testament to the power of friendship and solidarity to surmount them.

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• Authors: Mustapha Cherif, Mustapha/ Fagan Cherif, CHERIF MUSTAPHA
• Assisted by: Teresa Lavender Fagan (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2008
• EAN: 9780226102863
• ISBN: 978-0-226-10286-3
• No. of pages: 136
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Religion and Postmodernism; Religion & Postmodernism (Hard; Religion and Postmodernism; Religion and Postmodernism Series; Religion and Postmodernism Series (CHUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works