Why are the Arabs not free? : the politics of writing / Moustapha Safouan.
Why are the Arabs not free? : the politics of writing / Moustapha Safouan.
Why are the Arabs not free? : the politics of writing / Moustapha Safouan.
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Boston, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
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Date
2007.
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N320.17492/ 1
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English
Arabic, Egyptian
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xvii, 106 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Foreword / by Colin MacCabe -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Components of Western dominance -- Questions that have been forgotten in our political philosophy -- Creative transmission and stagnant transmission: culture and power -- Peoples and writers -- The role of language in the creation of...
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Boston, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
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Massachusetts
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2007.
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"Moustapha Safouan confronts head-on the problem of Arab despotism, examining it from the point of view of political philosophy, religious argument and linguistic history. Safouan's impassioned argument to his fellow Arabs is that if they wish to realise the potential of their great culture, they must follow the linguistic lead of the European Refo...
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Why are the Arabs not free? : the politics of writing / Moustapha Safouan.
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Critical quarterly.
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Critical quarterly.
A supplement to: Critical quarterly.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [99]-101) and index.
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N320.17492/ 1
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9781405161718 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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320.174927
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991023484059702626
