1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465084003321

Autore

El-Bendary Mohamed <1966->

Titolo

The Egyptian revolution and its aftermath [[electronic resource] ] : Mubarak to Morsi / / Mohamed El-Bendary

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Algora Pub., 2013

ISBN

0-87586-992-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (436 p.)

Disciplina

962.05/6

Soggetti

Islam and politics - Egypt

Social conflict - Egypt

Electronic books.

Egypt Politics and government 1981-2011

Egypt History Protests, 2011-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The revolution -- pt. 2. The aftermath.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a chronicle of, and a revealing look at, the 2011 Egyptian Revolution and its aftermath. The author, an Egyptian-American journalist living in Egypt, detailed the news coverage and man-in-the-street impressions of Mubarak's fall and Mohamed Morsi's struggle to stay in power. At home in the U.S. as well as in Egypt, he uses his experience as a journalist to explain for Americans the confrontation between Islamists and seculars.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996552366703316

Autore

Mrovlje Maša

Titolo

Rethinking political judgement : Arendt and existentialism / / Maša Mrovlje [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2019

ISBN

1-4744-3716-8

1-4744-3715-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 263 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

CI 6373

Disciplina

191

Soggetti

Political science - Philosophy

Existentialism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Dec 2019).

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Political Judgement in the History of Political Thought and the Modern Crisis -- 2. Sartre and Beauvoir: The Ambiguity of Political Judgement and the Challenge of Freedom and Responsibility -- 3. Camus and Arendt: Confronting the Ambiguity of Political Judgement and Illuminating the Limits of the World -- 4. Political Judgement and Narrativity -- 5. Facing Up to the Tragedy of Political Action: The Problem of Dirty Hands -- 6. Times of Transition: Reconciling with the Tragic Nature of Political Affairs -- Conclusion: Reclaiming Wonder at the World of Political Affairs -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Uses 20th century existentialism to confront the challenge of political judgement after moral absolutism. How can we reinvigorate the human capacity for political judgement as a practical activity capable of addressing the uncertainties of our postfoundational world? The book takes up this challenge by drawing on the historically attuned perspective of 20th-century philosophies of existence - in particular the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus and Hannah Arendt. Displacing the lingering rationalist temptations, Maša Mrovlje engages these thinkers' aesthetic sensibility to delve into the experiential reality of political judgement and revivify it as a worldly, ambiguous practice. The purpose is to illustrate the prescient political significance of existentialists' narrative imagination on two



contemporary perplexities of political judgement: the problem of dirty hands and the challenge of transitional justice. This engagement reveals the distinctly resistant potential of worldly judgement in its ability to stimulate our capacities of coming to terms with and creatively confronting the tragedies of political action, rather than simply yielding to them as a necessary course of political life.