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Description
In this groundbreaking book, Tarik Sabry is seeking out the terrain for best understanding the experience of being modern in transitional societies. He adopts a dynamic, ethnographically based approach to the meanings of 'modernness' in the Arab context and, within a relational framework, focuses on structures of thought, everydayness and self-referentiality to explore the process of building a bridge that rejoins the 'modern' in Arab thought with the 'modern' in Arab lived experience. In bringing together modernity as a philosophical category with the bridging spaces of Arab everyday life, Sabry is offering fresh methods of comprehending the question of what it means to be modern in the Arab world today.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: On Encountering and Modernness
Chapter 2: Contemporary Arab Thought and the Struggle for Authenticity
Chapter 3: Arab Popular Cultures and Everyday Life
Chapter 4: The Bridge and the Queue as Spaces of Encountering
Chapter 5: Modernness as Multiple Narrative-Category: Encountering the West
Chapter 6: Still Searching for the Arab Present Cultural Tense: Arab Cultural Studies
Chapter 7: Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | Sep 30 2010 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781848853607 |
| Imprint | I.B. Tauris |
| Illustrations | 13 integrated bw |
| Dimensions | 9 x 5 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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