Premodern, Antimodern or Postmodern? Islamic and Western Critiques of Modernity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6402234
AutoresRoxanne L Euben (autor correspondente)
Ano1997
Volume59
Fascículo3
Páginas429-460
Data de publicação1997-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Review of Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0034670500027674
OpenAlexW2141817364
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18
Referências citadas33

The steadily increasing appeal of Islamic fundamentalist ideas has often been characterized as a premodern, antimodern or, more recently, as a postmodern phenomenon. To explore the relationship of Islamist political thought to modernity, and the usefulness of the terminology of “modernity” to situate and understand it, this article explores two comparisons. The first is a comparison across time, and involves the juxtaposition of a prominent nineteenth century Islamic “modernist” and the critique of modernity by an influential twentieth century Islamic fundamentalist thinker. The second is a comparison across cultures, and involves the juxtaposition of this Islamic fundamentalist critique and many Western theorists similarly critical of “the modern condition.” These comparisons suggest that Islamic fundamentalist political thought is part of a transcultural and multivocal reassessment of the value and definition of “modernity.” Such reassessments should be understood in terms of a dialectical relationship to “modernity,” one that entails not the negation of modernity but an attempt to simultaneously abolish, transcend, preserve and transform it

Aesthetics · Dialectic · Epistemology · Islam · Linguistics · Modernity · Negation · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Postmodernism · Sociology · Terminology · Theology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Turkey's Politics and Society