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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798289403321

Autore

Cherkaoui Mohammed D. <1960->

Titolo

What is enlightenment? : continuity or rupture in the wake of the Arab uprisings / / by Mohammed D. Cherkaoui

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland ; ; London, [England] : , : Lexington Books, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-7391-9368-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (405 p.)

Disciplina

321.80956

Soggetti

Arab Spring, 2010-

Enlightenment - Arab countries

Arab countries Politics and government 21st century

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

Contents; Preface; Chapter One: The Arab Uprisings; Part 1; Chapter Two: Immanuel Kant in Tahrir Square; Chapter Three: Newtonian Force of the Arab Uprisings; Chapter Four: The Battle for Syria; Part 2; Chapter Five: Revolutionary Mediatization and the New Arab Civil Sphere; Chapter Six: The Google Earth Democracy; Part 3; Chapter Seven: How Do We Know What We "Know" about Politics and Reform in the Arab World?; Chapter Eight: Crafting Democracy; Chapter Nine: Religion, Politics, and Gender in the Arab Region; Part 4

Chapter Ten: Democracy against Social Reform: The Arab "Spring" Faces Its DemonsChapter Eleven: Organizing Principles for the Arab Enlightenment; Chapter Twelve: The "Dialectic of Enlightenment" and the New Arab Awakening; Chapter Thirteen: An Arab Axial Age?; Chapter Fourteen: Islamocracy or Demoslamic Politics? The New Dialectic; Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

This volume examines whether the Arab Uprisings introduce a replica of the European Enlightenment or rather stimulate an Arab/Islamic Awakening with its own cultural specificity and political philosophy. By placing Immanuel Kant in Tahrir Square, Cairo, this book adopts a comparative analysis of two enlightenment projects: one Arab, still under construction, with possible progression toward modernity or



regression toward neo-authoritarianism, and one European, shaped by the past two centuries.