The Tunisian laboratory

"Marxism, organic intellectuals and the "Islamic Left

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3293151
AutoresFlorian Keller (0000-0003-4362-5257, Graduate School for Global Intellectual History (GIH), autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Páginas1-20
Data de publicação2025-07-31
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInterventions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1369-801X • E-ISSN: 1469-929X
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369801x.2025.2504934
OpenAlexW4412815911
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas18

This essay explores the use of the Gramscian concept of the organic intellectual in two Tunisian periodicals: Outruhat (Theses) and Revue 21/15. Contrary to the common characterization that Marxist thought declined in the 1980s, this essay reveals the lively debate that unfolded in the Maghreb between Marxists and thinkers of political Islam during this period. I demonstrate how two intellectual projects conceptualized the role of the intellectual in a period characterized by a political crisis of the Tunisian political system after independence by analysing not only the tensions and disagreements between Marxist projects and those of political Islam, but also their mutual entanglements and overlapping intellectual genealogies

Islam · Political science · Sociology · Theology · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · North African History and Literature · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society