No Exit : Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Decolonization / Yoav Di-Capua.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Di-Capua, Yoav, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980--Appreciation--Arab countries.

Sartre, Jean-Paul.

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980--Influence.

Existentialism.

Philosophy--Arab countries--20th century.

Philosophy.

Decolonization--Arab countries.

Decolonization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

It is a curious and relatively little-known fact that for two decades-from the end of World War II until the late 1960s-existentialism's most fertile ground outside of Europe was in the Middle East, and Jean-Paul Sartre was the Arab intelligentsia's uncontested champion. In the Arab world, neither before nor since has another Western intellectual been so widely translated, debated, and celebrated. By closely following the remarkable career of Arab existentialism, Yoav Di-Capua reconstructs the cosmopolitan milieu of the generation that tried to articulate a political and philosophical vision for an egalitarian postcolonial world. He tells this story by touring a fascinating selection of Arabic and Hebrew archives, including unpublished diaries and interviews. Tragically, the warm and hopeful relationships forged between Arab intellectuals, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and others ended when, on the eve of the 1967 war, Sartre failed to embrace the Palestinian cause. Today, when the prospect of global ethical engagement seems to be slipping ever farther out of reach, No Exit provides a timely, humanistic account of the intellectual hopes, struggles, and victories that shaped the Arab experience of decolonization and a delightfully wide-ranging excavation of existentialism's non-Western history.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Note on Transliteration

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Visit

2. Why Existentialism?

3. Commitment

4. Meet the State

5. Unfreedom's Counterculture

6. A Beachhead in the Sixties

7. Toward Universal Emancipation

8. High Hopes

9. Fiasco

Epilogue: A Cosmic No Exit

Notes

Selected Translations

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

ISBN:

9780226499888

022649988X

OCLC:

1029547382