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Genre/Form: | Livres électroniques |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Derrida, Jacques. Islam and the West. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2008 (DLC) 2008003988 |
Named Person: | Jacques Derrida; Jacques Derrida |
Material Type: | Biography, Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jacques Derrida; Mustapha Cherif; Teresa Lavender Fagan; Giovanna Borradori |
OCLC Number: | 748898536 |
Notes: | Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 8 août 2011). TRAITEMENT SOMMAIRE. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | 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. |
Other Titles: | Islam et l'Occident. |
Responsibility: | Mustapha Chérif ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan ; with a foreword by Giovanna Borradori. |
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"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 only of Islam but of the Arab as the ultimate figure of exclusion and dissidence in the post-9/11 era." - Giovanna Borradori, from the Foreword" Read more...
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