| Arab Marxism and National Liberation: Selected Writings of Mahdi Amel Contributor(s): Amel, Mahdi (Author), Safieddine, Hicham (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004444238 ISBN-13: 9789004444232 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $217.55 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Physical Information: 164 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Mahdi Amel (1936-87) was a prominent Arab Marxist thinker and Lebanese Communist Party member. This collection brings for the first time to an English audience lengthy excerpts from six major works by Mahdi Amel. These include the two founding texts on colonialism and underdevelopment in which Amel began to grapple with the question of dependency, his treatise on sectarianism and the state, his critique of Edward Said's analysis of Marx, his exposure of emerging Islamised bourgeois trends of thought as part of a broader critique of everyday thought, and his reflection on cultural heritage as perceived by Arab bourgeoisie. Amel's writings serve as a reminder of the need to renew Marxist thought based on the concrete and particular social realities like colonialism. |