Wael Hallaq (Columbia University)

Gebundenes Buch

Reforming Modernity

Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha

Beschreibung

Reforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the philosopher Abdurrahman Taha. Wael B. Hallaq explores how Tahaâ s philosophical project sheds light on recent intellectual currents in the Islamic world and puts forth a formidable critique of Western and Islamic modernities.

Autor

Wael B. Hallaq is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. His works, which have been translated into a number of languages, include The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity's Moral Predicament (2013), which won Columbia University Press's Distinguished Book Award, and Restating Orientalism: A Critique of Modern Knowledge (Columbia, 2018).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 159mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 692g
• ISBN-13: 9780231193887
• ISBN-10: 0231193882
• Artikelnr.: 55875166