The formation of Arab reason : text, tradition and the construction of modernity in the Arab world /
Since the earliest period of Islamic history, Arab thought and reason has been dominated by a reverence for tradition and textual analysis. In this groundbreaking work, the great contemporary Arab philosopher Mohammed Abed al-Jabri seeks to chart a course towards modernity via the proposition that r...
| Основен автор: | Jabiri, MuhĐammad Abid. |
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| Автор-организации: | Markaz Dirasat al-WahĐdah al-Arabiyah (Beirut, Lebanon) |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English Arabic |
| Публикувано: |
London ; New York : Beirut, Lebanon : [New York] :
I.B. Tauris ; in association with the Centre for Arab Unity Studies ; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
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| Серия: |
Contemporary Arab scholarship in the social sciences ;
v. 5. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=364616 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Formation of Arab reason. |
| Резюме: |
Since the earliest period of Islamic history, Arab thought and reason has been dominated by a reverence for tradition and textual analysis. In this groundbreaking work, the great contemporary Arab philosopher Mohammed Abed al-Jabri seeks to chart a course towards modernity via the proposition that respect for textualism and tradition are not inconsistent with rationalism, and that both history and philosophy are key to the evolution of knowledge systems and ways of reasoning in Arab culture. Al-Jabri dissects the systems through which knowledge is obtained and verified in Arab thought, and demonstrates their fundamental bias towards analogical reasoning and premodern authoritative referents, some of which are inherently resistant to empirical analysis. In an impassioned defence of rationalism, he argues that these textual reference points must be interpreted and mediated with critical analytical tools. He advocates an evolution of Arab thought to accommodate the changeability of values, interpretations and structures over space and time, to escape an a-historical imprisonment. --Book Jacket. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (x, 462 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 439-448) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780857719447 0857719440 1283169061 9781283169066 |