The Crisis of the Arab Intellectual: Traditionalism or Historicism? (UCLA Latin American Studies Series)

This Book Intends To Review The Meaning Of Contemporary In Arab Intellectual History. It Presents A Classification Of Four Periods In Modern Arab Intellectual History; They Are The Following: 1) Nahda: The Great Arab Renaissance Period, From 1850 To 1914. The Nahda Sought Through Translation And Vulgarization To Assimilate The Great Achievements Of Modern European Civilization; 2) The Period Between The Two Wars Characterized By The The Development Of Thoughts Which Played A Leading Role In Social Movements, Especially In Nationalist Movements; 3) The Period The Arab Nationalist Experiments On The Unionist Ideology; And 4) The Period Of Moral And Political Crisis After The Defeat In The 1967 War. The Central Thesis Of This Book Is That The Concept Of History - A Concept Playing A Capital Role In Modern Thought - Is In Fact Peripheral To All The Ideologies That Have Dominated The Arab World Till Now. I. Tradition And Traditionalism : The Arabs And History. Tradition And Tranditionalization. The Arabs And Cultural Anthropology -- Ii. Historicism And Modernization: Historicism And The Arab Intelligentsia. Marxism And The Third World Intellectual. Conclusion : The Crisis Of The Intellectuals And The Crisis Of Society. By Abdallah Laroui ; Translated From The French By Diarmid Cammell. Translation Of: 'la Crise Des Intellectuels Arabes'. Paris : Maspero, 1974. First Published In French Under The Title : La Crise Des Intellectuels Arabes : Traditionalisme Ou Historicisme? Chapter 5 Was First Published In A Special Number Of Diogène (64, Oct.-dec. 1958), Nouvelle Actualité Du Marxisme, With Contributions By T.w. Adorno, H. Marcuse, J. Hyppolite, E.j. Hobsbawm, M. Rodinson, A. Abdel Malek, K. Papaioannou, Etc. The Appendix To Chapter 4 Was Written As A Conclusion To The Article Europe In The Encyclopaedia Universalis. Includes Bibliographical References.