Thinking Space Europe and the Challenge of Islam
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| Publication date | 26-09-2018 |
| Journal | Comprendre : revue de politique de la culture |
| Volume | Issue number | 1 | 2 |
| Pages (from-to) | 47-58 |
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| Abstract | The idea of a Europe as a ‘thinking space’ proceeds from a tacit image of Islam, or the Islamic world, as its absolute antipode, or – to retain the spatial imagery – as a heterotopia that stands for everything modern Europe has combated, overcome, or rejected. Remarkably few academic philosophers have ventured to discuss Islam and the Muslim world; and when they do, they risk reproducing precisely the self-congratulatory and reductionist narrative of Western progress, emancipation and secularization that nowadays is increasingly being taken over by xenophobic right-wing parties. |
| Document type | Article |
| Language | English |
| Published at | https://comprendre.online/index.php/comp/article/view/16 |
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