Islam and the West: a conversation with Jacques Derrida
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1. Verfasser: Derrida, Jacques 1930-2004 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Fagan, Teresa Lavender 1956- (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press ©2008
Schriftenreihe:Religion and postmodernism
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Beschreibung:Translated from the French
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Foreword: pure faith in peace -- Introduction: friendship, above all -- The future of civilizations -- The discussion -- To have lived, and to remember, as an Algerian -- East-West: unity and differences -- Injustice and decline -- Separation or connection? -- Progress is absolute, or there is no progress -- Conclusion: the different other is indispensable to our lives -- Afterword: from the southern shores, adieu to Derrida -- Biography: Derrida and the southern shores
In the spring of 2003, Jacques Derrida sat down for a public debate in Paris with Algerian intellectual Mustapha Chérif. 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 Chérif relates in this account of their dialogue, th
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