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Islam and the West
Mustapha Cherif
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Description for Islam and the West
Hardcover. Offers an opportunity to further readers understanding of Jaques Derrida's views on the key political and religious divisions of our time and an often moving testament to the power of friendship and solidarity to surmount them. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Series: Religion and Postmodernism. Num Pages: 128 pages, 3 halftones. BIC Classification: HPS; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 300.
In the spring of 2003, Jacques Derrida sat down for a public debate in Paris with Algerian intellectual Mustapha Cherif. 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 Cherif relates in this account of their dialogue, the topic of Islam ... Read more
In the spring of 2003, Jacques Derrida sat down for a public debate in Paris with Algerian intellectual Mustapha Cherif. 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 Cherif relates in this account of their dialogue, the topic of Islam ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Series
Religion and Postmodernism
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226102863
SKU
V9780226102863
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About Mustapha Cherif
Mustapha Cherif is professor of philosophy and Islamic studies at the University of Algiers, a visiting professor at the College de France, and the author of L'Islam, tolerant ou intolerant? Teresa Lavender Fagan has translated numerous books for the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for Islam and the West
"Focusing on the crucial but largely underestimated role that Algeria, his country of birth, has played in Derrida's philosophical itinerary, Islam and the West presents Derrida's interpretation of the interdependence of politics, religion, and faith in a new light, shows that his ideal of 'democracy to come' has a strong universalist component, and, finally, adds to his fascinating understanding not ... Read more