Reforming Modernity: Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha by Hallaq, Wael
Reforming Modernity: Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha by Hallaq, Wael

Reforming Modernity: Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha

Reforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the Morocco-based...
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Reforming Modernity: Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha by Hallaq, Wael

Reforming Modernity: Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha

$245.38
Reforming Modernity: Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha by Hallaq, Wael

Reforming Modernity: Ethics and the New Human in the Philosophy of Abdurrahman Taha

$245.38
Author: Wael Hallaq
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Reforming Modernity is a sweeping intellectual history and philosophical reflection built around the work of the Morocco-based philosopher Abdurrahman Taha, one of the most significant philosophers in the Islamic world since the colonial era. Wael B. Hallaq contends that Taha is at the forefront of forging a new, non-Western-centric philosophical tradition. He explores how Taha's philosophical project sheds light on recent intellectual currents in the Islamic world and puts forth a formidable critique of Western and Islamic modernities.

Hallaq argues that Taha's project departs from--but leaves behind--the epistemological grounds in which most modern Muslim intellectuals have anchored their programs. Taha systematically rejects the modes of thought that have dominated the Muslim intellectual scene since the beginning of the twentieth century--nationalism, Marxism, secularism, political Islamism, and liberalism. Instead, he provides alternative ways of thinking, forcefully and virtuosically developing an ethical system with a view toward reforming existing modernities. Hallaq analyzes the ethical thread that runs throughout Taha's oeuvre, illuminating how Taha weaves it into a discursive engagement with the central questions that plague modernity in both the West and the Muslim world. The first introduction to Taha's ethical philosophy for Western audiences, Reforming Modernity presents his complex thought in an accessible way while engaging with it critically. Hallaq's conversation with Taha's work both proffers a cogent critique of modernity and points toward answers for its endemic and seemingly insoluble problems.

Author: Wael Hallaq
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 11/12/2019
Pages: 376
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780231193887


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About the Author
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).
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