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Autore |
Derrida Jacques |
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Titolo |
Islam and the West : a conversation with Jacques Derrida / / Mustapha Chérif ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan ; with a foreword by Giovanna Borradori |
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Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 2008 |
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©2008 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-07032-0 |
9786612070327 |
0-226-10287-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxii, 114 pages) |
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Collana |
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Religion and Postmodernism |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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CherifMustapha <1950-> |
FaganTeresa Lavender |
BorradoriGiovanna |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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East and West |
Political science - Philosophy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Foreword: pure faith in peace -- Introduction: friendship, above all -- The future of civilizations -- The discussion -- To have lived, and to remember, as an Algerian -- East-West: unity and differences -- Injustice and decline -- Separation or connection? -- Progress is absolute, or there is no progress -- Conclusion: the different other is indispensable to our lives -- Afterword: from the southern shores, adieu to Derrida -- Biography: Derrida and the southern shores. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In the spring of 2003, Jacques Derrida sat down for a public debate in Paris with Algerian intellectual Mustapha Chérif. The eminent philosopher arrived at the event directly from the hospital where he had just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the illness that would take his life just over a year later. That he still participated in the exchange testifies to the magnitude of the subject at hand: the increasingly distressed relationship between Islam and the West, and the questions of freedom, justice, and democracy that surround it. As Chérif relates... |
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