Cultural Schizophrenia: Islamic Societies Confronting the WestSyracuse University Press, 1 nov 1997 - 198 páginas Professor Daryush Shayegan's book is a major contribution to what is perhaps the most critical debate within the Muslim world today: the relationship between its own culture and the influence of Western modernity. Based on examples ranging from Iran to Morocco, the author portrays a society he defines as peripheral—bound by a slavish adherence to its own glorified history, its "Tradition"—yet facing an external reality that derives from the West. The meeting of these two incompatible worlds sees the West but, more importantly, in how it sees itself. Shayegan draws on a vast range of cultural experiences (from China and Japan to India and Latin America) in analyzing the type of mentality that is chained to its history. Sources as diverse as Jung and Octavio Paz widen the scope of this illuminating text. Already published in French, Turkish, Spanish, and Arabic to great critical acclaim, this English edition of Cultural Schizophrenia will be required reading for everyone concerned with the state of the world today, whether in the Third World or the West. |
Índice
Postponing the End so Unable to Begin | 3 |
On Holiday from History | 12 |
The Fear of Losing Identity | 22 |
THE ONTOLOGICAL DISPLACEMENT | 31 |
Hardening of the Scholastic Arteries | 38 |
The Change of Paradigm | 44 |
The Struggle between the Paradigms | 50 |
A Consciousness Trailing Behind the Idea | 59 |
Technocrats | 69 |
59 | 81 |
76 | 93 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
Cultural Schizophrenia: Islamic Societies Confronting the West Daryush Shayegan,Darius Shayegan Vista de fragmentos - 1992 |
Cultural Schizophrenia: Islamic Societies Confronting the West Darius Shayegan Vista de fragmentos - 1997 |
Términos y frases comunes
alienated appearance Arabic attitude awareness become caesuras century change of paradigm Chinese civilizations classical episteme clergy collective unconscious concepts consciousness constitution contradictions critical cultural deformed democracy discourse distorting field domain Enlightenment episteme epistemological everything example existence Fernand Braudel Foucault function Gallimard grafting Hegel human sciences Ibid ideas identity ideologue ijtihad imagination Imam intellectual intelligentsia Iran Iranian Islamic world knowledge language Manichaean Marxist mental metaphysical modern age modes monarchy Motahhari mullahs Muslim mutations mystic myth Nahda native colons nature never object obscurantism Octavio Paz old régime ontological Paris perception period Persian phenomenon philosophic poet political problem Prophet Quran reality reason religion religious remain Renaissance representation result revolution role Schizophrenia scientific secular sense Shari'a Shiite social society sort spirit structures symbols technocrats Tehran things thinkers thought traditional transl translation ulemas unconscious unhappy consciousness Usuli vision West Western