| The Public Sphere: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam Contributor(s): Salvatore, A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 140397473X ISBN-13: 9781403974730 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2007 Annotation: This book is a theory-informed, comparative and historical exploration of the notion of the public sphere within Western and Islamic traditions. It situates the emergence of the modern public sphere in a wider historical and theoretical context than usually done in conventional analyses. The work traces cross-cutting genealogies spanning conventional borders between tradition and modernity, and in particular between the Western and the Islamic world. This approach unsettles received, evolutionary views of the public sphere as an exclusive legacy of Western political cultures. The public sphere is finally reconceived as a complex platform for the modern cultivation of culturally diverse, competing, yet intersecting discourses. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Religion | Religion, Politics & State - Religion | Islam - General |
| Dewey: 320.011 |
| LCCN: 2006037218 |
| Series: Culture and Religion in International Relations |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.91" W x 8.29" (1.02 lbs) 293 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Religious Orientation - Islamic - Religious Orientation - Catholic |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book explores conceptual and institutional developments of the notion of the public sphere in the West and in the Islamic world, tackling historic ruptures spanning the formation and transformation of the Euro-Mediterranean world. Set against an imploding grammar of socio-political life, the modern liberal public sphere appears in a new light. |
