Using an innovative and entertaining approach, Francesca Bocca-Aldaqre traces the history of intellectual and cultural exchanges between Europe and the Muslim world of the Middle East in the 20th century, through six accounts of interactions, adaptations, and translations of concepts between two intellectuals within these distinct spaces. A precursor to a new understanding of European philosophy and literature, as well as these cells of the Muslim world, the writing and the poet trace a point between Nietzsche and Muhammad Iqbal, between Ernst Jünger and Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, between Leo Tolstoy and Imam Schamyl, between Martin Heidegger and Ibn ‘Arabi, between Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Alhazen, between René Descartes and Abu Hamid al-Ghazali. The paralleling of these duos of thoughts, which generally appear in distinct intellectual universes, allows us to uncover the intertwining of these intellectual genealogies and to question the perception of the cultural frontier between Europe and the Muslim world. Ce livre short, mais fort sur le plan conceptuel, permet non seulement d’étendre nos Horizons intellectuels mais aussi d’introduire des Concepts philosophiques complexes sous una forma divertissante et créative.
“The East and the West, Islam and the Judeo-Christian tradition constitute the chain and the plot that allow us to weave Francesca Bocca-Aldaqre’s in-depth commentary, more relevant than ever in these times of exclusion and discord. Not to be missed.”
Conventional
“It is a revolutionary exercise, which consists in reversing the messy model of an Islam in opposition and comparison with the West. Nietzsche in Paradise is among the first to propose a completely unpublished historiography of thought. It proposes a way, an alternative to the clash of civilizations and to the end of History. »
James Mary Arrigo
Interviewed by Corriere della Sera’s La Lettura, Francesca Bocca-Aldaqre states:
“There is still no consistent formulation of the contemporary world in Muslim thought. We Muslims have not yet developed a new way of thinking adapted to this era. A way of thinking relevant to a contemporary culture in the great post-religious celebration. However, the cultural production of the West is open to nourishing itself with Islam. There is simply enormous potential for Islam, literature, spirituality, and the cultural influence of the West.”“Few books can so harmoniously bring into conversation two realities that we would, until now, prefer to keep separate, but which, on the contrary, bear witness to the existence of a reciprocal relationship that only asks to be recognized.”
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