Islam and the West : a conversation with Jacques Derrida /

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In the spring of 2003, Jacques Derrida sat down for a public debate in Paris with Algerian intellectual Mustapha Chérif. The eminent philosopher arrived at the event directly from the hospital where he had just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the illness that would take his life just over a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Derrida, Jacques
Other Authors: Cherif, Mustapha, 1950-, Fagan, Teresa Lavender, Borradori, Giovanna
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2008.
Series:Religion and postmodernism.
Subjects:
Derrida, Jacques > Interviews.
Derrida, Jacques.
East and West.
Political science > Philosophy.
HISTORY > World.
muslim, islamic, religion, religious studies, faith, belief, philosophy, academic, scholarly, philosophical, derrida, debate, controversy, discussion, mustapha cherif, intellect, intellectual, thinker, philosopher, relationship, western, international, global, freedom, justice, democracy, biographical, secular, secularism, fanatic, fanaticism, civilization, culture, cultural.
Interviews.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: pure faith in peace
  • Introduction: friendship, above all
  • The future of civilizations
  • The discussion
  • To have lived, and to remember, as an Algerian
  • East-West: unity and differences
  • Injustice and decline
  • Separation or connection?
  • Progress is absolute, or there is no progress
  • Conclusion: the different other is indispensable to our lives
  • Afterword: from the southern shores, adieu to Derrida
  • Biography: Derrida and the southern shores.

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