The Challenge of Modernity

The Quest for Authenticity in the Arab World

By:

Louay M Safi

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This text aims to gain insights into the central aspects of modernity and the underlying factors at work in the process of modernisation. It begins by examining Western modernity and then uses the insights gained from this examination to study the implications of Western modernity for non-Western societies. The author also attempts to demonstrate the inadequacy of the functional approach for understanding the process of modernisation in non-Western regions. In all, the author concludes that the project of modernity emerges as a result of the activities of the universal intellectual who, being equipped with the intellectual skills to analyse, synthesise and reinterpret reality, and the psychological authenticity to resist the pressure to adapt to the prevailing social conditions, endeavours to bring order to his own internal world by redefining the relationship between the part and the whole, the universal and the individual. He then strives to extend the internally achieved peace and order to the surrounding society via discourse.

Author Biography:

Louay M. Safi teaches in the Political Science Department at the International Islamic University in Malaysia.

Release date Australia

May 31st, 1994

Author

Louay M Safi

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Pages

232

Dimensions

148x218x18

ISBN-13

9780819193759

Product ID

8142307

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