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The Public Sphere: Liberal Modernity, Catholicism, Islam (Culture and Religion in International Relations)

By Armando Salvatore

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
140397473X, 9781403974730
Open Library ID
OL8400838M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
972 kB (995441 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
304\304
Topic
Religion
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This book is a theory-informed, comparative and historical exploration of the notion of the public sphere within Western and Islamic traditions. It situates the emergence of the modern public sphere in a wider historical and theoretical context than usually done in conventional analyses. The work traces cross-cutting genealogies spanning conventional borders between tradition and modernity, and in particular between the Western and the Islamic world. This approach unsettles received, evolutionary views of the public sphere as an exclusive legacy of Western political cultures. The public sphere is finally reconceived as a complex platform for the modern cultivation of culturally diverse, competing, yet intersecting discourses.

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