The New Orientalists : postmodern representations of Islam from Foucault to Baudrillard
خط فهرست نويسي و خط اصلي شناسه
The west's Orientalism - its construction of an Arab or Islamic 'Other' - has been exposed and examined under the critical theory microscope and thoroughly expelled, it seems, from academic thought. At the same time postmodern thinkers from Nietzsche onwards have employed the motifs and symbols of the Islamic Orient within an ongoing critique of western modernity, an appropriation which, this hugely controversial book argues, runs every risk of becoming a new and more insidious Orientalist strain.Ian Almond sensitively yet rigorously examines the work of Nietzsche, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Julia Kristeva and Slavoj Zizek, as well as that of postmodern writers Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie and Orhan Pamuk. In doing so he exposes the implications of this 'use' of Islam for both the postmodern project and for Islam itself. Taking apart the assumptions, omissions and contradictions inherent in these thinkers' approaches to Islam and to the Arab world, and drawing on the work of prominent Muslim thinkers including Ziauddin Sardar, Aziz Al-Azmeh and Bobby S. Sayyid, "The New Orientalists" highlights the difficulty of ever speaking truly about the 'Other'. In light of the current Western climate of fear and hysteria surrounding the Islamic world, this groundbreaking project could hardly be more timely.
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
London ; New York
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
I.B. Tauris
تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره
2007
مشخصات ظاهری
نام خاص و کميت اثر
229 p. ; 22 cm.
يادداشت کلی
متن يادداشت
Includes bibliographical references )p. ]219[-224( and index.
متن يادداشت
ISBN: 9781845113988
یادداشتهای مربوط به عنوان و پدیدآور
متن يادداشت
Ian Almond
یادداشت های مربوط به نسخه اصلی
متن يادداشت
1
موضوع (اسم عام یاعبارت اسمی عام)
عنصر شناسه ای
، Philosophy, Islamic.
عنصر شناسه ای
، Postmodernism.
رده بندی کنگره
شماره رده
B
741
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A39
N49
2007
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )