Islam, modernity, and the human sciences:

"This book discloses a largely unnoticed dialogue between Muslim and Western social thought on the search for meaning and transcendence in the human sciences. The disclosure is accomplished by a comparative reading of contemporary Muslim debates on secular knowledge on the one hand, and of a fo...

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Beteilige Person: Zaidi, Ali Hassan 1970- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York Palgrave Macmillan 2011
Ausgabe:1. ed., 1. publ.
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Zusammenfassung:"This book discloses a largely unnoticed dialogue between Muslim and Western social thought on the search for meaning and transcendence in the human sciences. The disclosure is accomplished by a comparative reading of contemporary Muslim debates on secular knowledge on the one hand, and of a foundational Western debate on the demise of metaphysics in the human sciences on the other hand. The comparative reading is grounded in a dialogical hermeneutic approach; that is, a hermeneutic approach to texts and cultural traditions that draws upon the work of Hans Georg Gadamer and also upon the insights of inter-religious dialogue"--
Umfang:XIII, 217 S.
ISBN:9780230110359
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