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Benslama, Fethi

 
9780816648894: Psychoanalysis and the Challenge of Islam
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ISBN 10: 0816648891 ISBN 13: 9780816648894
Casa editrice: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2009

Sinossi

Fethi Benslama is a psychoanalyst who, although a secular thinker, identifies himself as a person of Muslim culture who rejects ready-made explanations for Islamic fundamentalism. In that spirit, Benslama demythifies both Islam and Western ideas of the religion by addressing the psychoanalytic root causes of the Muslim world's clash with modernity and subsequent turn to fundamentalism.
Tracing this ideological strain to its origins, Benslama shows that contemporary Islam consists of a fairly recent hybridization of Arab nationalism, theocracy, and an attempt (both naive and deadly) to ground science in faith. Combining textual analysis and Lacanian and Freudian psychoanalysis, he examines Islam's foundation, providing fresh readings of the book of Genesis, the Koran, The Arabian Nights, and the work of medieval Islamic philosophers.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Fethi Benslama teaches at the University of Paris VII and is the editor of the psychoanalytic journal Intersignes.

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Editore
Univ of Minnesota Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0816648891
ISBN 13 
9780816648894
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
258
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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