Islam and the West : a conversation with Jacques Derrida / Mustapha Cherif ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan ; with a foreword by Giovanna Borradori.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Derrida, Jacques.

Contributor:

Cherif, Mustapha, 1950-

Fagan, Teresa Lavender.

Borradori, Giovanna.

Series:

Religion and Postmodernism

Standardized Title:

Islam et l'Occident. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Derrida, Jacques--Interviews.

Derrida, Jacques.

East and West.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 114 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

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...

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786612070327

9781282070325

1282070320

9780226102870

0226102874

OCLC:

435816762