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The Political Identity of the West

The Political Identity of the West Platonism in the Dialogue of Cultures

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Publisher's Synopsis

To assert that a 'clash of civilizations' follows inexorably from the different religious convictions at the foundations of Western Judeo-Christian and Arabic-Islamic cultures means to deny that a common political rationality can articulate genuinely universal, albeit culturally situated values. The eleven contributions to the present volume take up this controversy by challenging its premise that the heritage of classical Greek thought is exclusively part of Western political identity. By exploring the tradition of Platonism informing both Arabic-Islamic and Western political thought and intellectual history in key stations in their history, the contributors show how Platonic political theory can still bear fruit in the present day, especially in the context of dialogue between cultures.

Book information

ISBN: 9783631555453
Publisher: Lang, Peter, GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wiss
Imprint: Peter Lang Edition
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 210
Weight: 284g
Height: 150mm
Width: 209mm
Spine width: 13mm