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Author:   Mohammed D. Cherkaoui ,  Hani Albasoos ,  Albena Azmanova ,  Brian Calfano
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.753kg
ISBN:  

9780739193679

ISBN 10:   0739193678
Pages:   404
Publication Date:   11 April 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Chapter 1. The Arab Uprisings: the Freedom-to Question, Mohammed D. Cherkaoui Part I: Experimenting with Social Change Chapter 2. Immanuel Kant in Tahrir Square, Mohammed D. Cherkaoui Chapter 3. Newtonian Force of the Arab Uprisings, Mohammed D. Cherkaoui and Hani Albasoos Chapter 4. The Battle for Syria: The Bloody Non-violent Protest, Mohammed D. Cherkaoui and Radwan Ziadeh Part II: Debating Reason and Modernity Chapter 5. Revolutionary Mediatization and the New Arab Civil Sphere, Mohammed D. Cherkaoui Chapter 6. The Google-Earth Democracy: The Two-Legitimacy Conflict in Egypt, Mohammed D. Cherkaoui Part III: Connecting the Arab Public Sphere to the World Chapter 7. How Do We Know What We ""Know"" about Politics and Reform in the Arab World?, Brian R. Calfano Chapter 8. Crafting Democracy: Political Learning as a Precondition for Sustainable Development in the Maghreb, John P. Entelis Chapter 9. Religion, Youth and Women in the Arab Region: Challenging Global Institutions and Politics of Development, Azza Karam Part IV: Predicting an Arab Age of Enlightenment Chapter 10. Democracy against Social Reform: the Arab ‘Spring’ Faces its Demons, Albena Azmanova Chapter 11. Organizing Principles for the Arab Enlightenment: Philosophical Reflections on the History of Power, Solon J. Simmons Chapter 12. The “Dialectic of Enlightenment” and the New Arab Awakening, Richard E. Rubenstein Chapter 13. An Arab Axial Age?, Mohammed D. Cherkaoui Chapter 14. Conclusion: Islamocracy or Demoslamic Politics? The New Dialectic, Mohammed D. Cherkaoui"

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A uniquely informative read for anyone interested in the philosophical background of the Arab uprisings, paying equal weight to Arab and Western contributions, and displaying a careful attention to the relation between daily activism and the intellectual zeitgeist associated with revolutionary action. -- Mohammed Bamyeh, University of Pittsburgh

The book does a good job in providing answers to the two main questions it raises: Why and in which ways the Arab Spring was a middle class phenomenon, and why and in which ways the pre-2011 traditions (authoritarianism and Islamism) reasserted themselves so forcefully, not to say violently, in the MENA countries after the uprisings of 2011. . . . The authors of this collective volume are to be congratulated for having elevated themselves above present day social sciences enslaved to the scientist myth of instrumental reason. * VoegelinView * A uniquely informative read for anyone interested in the philosophical background of the Arab uprisings, paying equal weight to Arab and Western contributions, and displaying a careful attention to the relation between daily activism and the intellectual zeitgeist associated with revolutionary action. -- Mohammed Bamyeh, University of Pittsburgh

Author Information

Mohammed D. Cherkaoui is professor of conflict resolution and peacebuilding at George Mason University’s School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and member of the Center for Narrative and Conflict Resolution.

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