The Algebraic and the Experienced

Among the Arabs, wijdân means a particularly rich and moving relationship between essence and existence (and vice versa). In recent periods of their history it has been interpreted as mass movements, emotional violence, and the impulse to change life. Is this but one aspect, one of several effects, or is it the substance of revolutions? Does the concept "to change life" have a value by itself, or is it only a symptom or corollary of more hidden movements which justify such an abstraction?Etymologically thawra in arabic means "effervescence." Moreover, it does not just partially include, but surpasses our understanding of revolutions. We have become accustomed to defining them as changes in class relationships. The exercise of a secret logic can be seen which would determine, in the end, the fortunes of production relationships. This is, at any rate, what Marxist doctrine maintained, until recent studies revealed more shades of meaning and completed it. This is not the place to take up in our turn the debate about genesis/structure, structure/superstructure, the predominant factor and its consequences or effects, or "superdetermination," which is the contingency to use ruses

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• Self-assertive interdependence in Arab culture

  Open Access•Alvaro San Martin, Marwan Sinaceur et al.•Nature Human Behaviour•2018

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