Modernity, Democracy and Religion

Famous social scientist Samir Amin, one of the founders of the Addiction School, questions the crisis of modernity, the "cultural specificities" discourse of postmodernism and the limitations of the Eurocentric perspective on the axis of the concepts of religion and democracy. Modernity, Democracy and Religion, subtitled "Critique of Culturalisms", extends, on the one hand, to political Islam, the Arab world and social movements in the Middle East, and, on the other hand, to the critique of Hardt and Negri's books Empire and Multitude and the concrete proposals of the Bamako Call against globalized capitalism. .

This original work, translated into Turkish with the joint translation of Fikret Başkaya, Uğur Günsür and Güven Öztürk, provides us with important data to analyze the contradictory nature of the geography we live in. It opens our minds to the complicated relationship between religious movements and modernization, the uncertainty of the struggle for democracy, the entry of political Islam into the service of imperialist expansion, the abandonment of the universalist passions of bourgeois ideology and its transition to culturalism, and similar issues.

In order to understand the developments in the world, the Middle East and in our country more clearly, on a current and historical basis, and to add this understanding to social and political struggles...
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Number of Pages: 192

Year of Print: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Yordam Kitap

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

First Print Year: 2016

Number of Printings: 2nd Edition

Language Turkish

Media Type: Paperback