Islam and the West A Conversation with Jacques Derrida

Name: Islam and the West A Conversation with Jacques Derrida
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ISBN: 9780226102863

ISBN-10: 0226102866

ISBN-13: 9780226102863

Edition: 2008

Authors: Mustapha Chï¿½rif, Teresa Lavender Fagan, Giovanna Borradori, Giovanna Borradori

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In the spring of 2003, Jacques Derrida sat down for a public debate in Paris with Algerian intellectual Mustapha Ch'233;rif. 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 Ch'233;rif relates in this account of their dialogue, the topic of Islam held special resonance for Derrida-perhaps it is to be expected that near…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/1/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 136
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.74" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator living in Chicago; she has translated numerous books for the University of Chicago Press and other publishers.



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