{"product_id":"arabic-thought-against-the-authoritarian-age-towards-an-intellectual-history-of-the-present-hardback-9781107193383","title":"Arabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age; Towards an Intellectual History of the Present (Hardback) 9781107193383","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eArabic Thought against the Authoritarian Age\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTowards an Intellectual History of the Present\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCutting-edge scholarship on post-war Arab intellectual history that challenges conventional thinking about authoritarianism, religion and revolution in the modern Middle East.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJens Hanssen (Edited by), Max Weiss (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107193383, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 February 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e454 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2.4 cm, 0.84 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Spanning a wide range of thinkers, writers and struggles across the Arab world and from the 1940s to the present, this collection of essays by a stellar cast of scholars illustrates both the diversity and the continuities of postwar Arab intellectual history. Whether tracing the complex legacies of the nahda or the travails of the Arab left, Hanssen and Weiss's follow-up to their Arabic Thought beyond the Liberal Age scuttles popular fallacies about the sterility or atavism of Arab intellectual life, illuminates the deeper roots of the 2011–12 Arab uprisings, and makes available to English-language readers important voices that are too rarely heard outside the Middle East.' James McDougall, University of Oxford\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn the wake of the Arab uprisings, the Middle East descended into a frenzy of political turmoil and unprecedented human tragedy which reinforced regrettable stereotypes about the moribund state of Arab intellectual and cultural life. This volume sheds important light on diverse facets of the post-war Arab world and its vibrant intellectual, literary and political history. Cutting-edge research is presented on such wide-ranging topics as poetry, intellectual history, political philosophy, and religious reform and cultural resilience all across the length and breadth of the Arab world, from Morocco to the Gulf States. This is an important statement of new directions in Middle East studies that challenges conventional thinking and has added relevance to the study of global intellectual history more broadly.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction: towards a postwar intellectual history of the Arab world Max Weiss and Jens Hanssen\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Arab Intellectuals in an Age of Decolonization: 2. Changing the Arab intellectual guard: on the fall of the udaba?, 1940–60 Yoav Di-Capua\u003cbr\u003e 3. Arabic thought in the radical age: Emile Habibi, the Israeli communist party and the production of Arab Jewish radicalism, 1946–61 Orit Bashkin\u003cbr\u003e 4. Political praxis in the Gulf: Ahmad al-Khatib and the movement of Arab nationalists, 1948–69 Abdel Razzaq Takriti\u003cbr\u003e 5. Modernism in translation: poetry and intellectual history in Beirut Robyn Creswell\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Culture and Ideology in the Shadow of Authoritarianism: 6. Regional specificities of modern Arab thought: Morocco since the liberal age Hosam Aboul-Ela\u003cbr\u003e 7. Sidelining ideology: Arab theory in the metropole and periphery, circa 1977 Fadi Bardawil\u003cbr\u003e 8. Mosaic, melting pot, pressure cooker: the religious, the secular, and the sectarian in twentieth-century Syrian social thought Max Weiss\u003cbr\u003e 9. Looking for 'the women question' in Algeria and Tunisia: ideas, political language and female actors before and after independence Natalya Vince\u003cbr\u003e Part III. From (Neo)Liberalism to the 'Arab Spring' and Beyond: 10. Egyptian workers in the 'liberal age' and beyond Joel Beinin\u003cbr\u003e 11. The redemption of women's liberation: reviving Qasim Amin in contemporary Egypt Ellen McLarney\u003cbr\u003e 12. Turath as critique: Hassan Hanafi and the political subject in modern Arabic thought Yasmeen Daifallah\u003cbr\u003e 13. Summoning the spirit of Taha Husayn's enlightenment project: the Nahda revival of Qadaya wa-shahadat in the 1990s Suzanne Kassab\u003cbr\u003e 14. Revolution as ready-made: art, aesthetics, Arab uprisings Negar Azimi\u003cbr\u003e 15. For a third Nahda Elias Khoury\u003cbr\u003e 16. Where are the intellectuals in the Syrian revolution? Rosa Yasin Hasan\u003cbr\u003e 17. The intellectuals and the revolution in Syria Yasin al-Hajj Salih.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Middle Eastern history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Middle Eastern history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Middle%20Eastern%20history%20%5BHBJF1%5D%22\"\u003eHBJF1\u003c\/a\u003e], History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913194135832,"sku":"9781107193383","price":72.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107193383i_726fa52f-518e-45e1-ac6d-fef9dc0a1d79.jpg?v=1691362687","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/arabic-thought-against-the-authoritarian-age-towards-an-intellectual-history-of-the-present-hardback-9781107193383","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}