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Author Derrida, Jacques.

Title Islam and the West : a conversation with Jacques Derrida / Mustapha Chérif ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan ; with a foreword by Giovanna Borradori
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 114 pages)
Series Religion and postmodernism
Religion and postmodernism.
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
Summary 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 year later. That he still participated in the exchange testifies to the magnitude of the subject at hand: the increasingly distressed relationship between Islam and the West, and the questions of freedom, justice, and democracy that surround it. As Chérif relates in this account of their dialogue, th
Analysis 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
Notes Translated from the French
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Derrida, Jacques -- Interviews
SUBJECT Derrida, Jacques fast
Subject East and West.
Political science -- Philosophy.
HISTORY -- World.
East and West
Political science -- Philosophy
Genre/Form Interviews
Form Electronic book
Author Cherif, Mustapha, 1950-
Fagan, Teresa Lavender.
Borradori, Giovanna.
ISBN 9780226102870
0226102874
1282070320
9781282070325
9786612070327
6612070323
Other Titles Islam et l'Occident. English