What Is Enlightenment?: Continuity Or Rupture In The Wake Of The Arab Uprisings

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.

• | Author: Mohammed D. Cherkaoui
• | Publisher: Lexington Books
• | Publication Date: Apr 11, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 404 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Philosophy
• | ISBN-10: 0739193678
• | ISBN-13: 9780739193679