The Challenge of Modernity The Quest for

This book examines the central aspects of modernity and the underlying factors at work in the process of modernization.

Preface
Introduction
Modernization Theory	p. 1
Parsonian Legacy and the Functionalist Approach	p. 1
Discrepancy and Ambiguity	p. 7
The Meaning of Modernization	p. 9
Expansion of Western Centers	p. 13
From Modern Culture to Cultural Modernity	p. 18
The Marxian Model of Development	p. 23
Historical Materialism	p. 24
The Reductionist Interpretation	p. 28
The Revisionist Interpretation	p. 34
The Weberian Model of Development	p. 45
Modernization as Rationalization	p. 45
The Orientation of Action	p. 48
The Disenchantment of the World	p. 52
The Weberian Paradox	p. 56
The Eclipse of Substantive Rationality	p. 61
The Emancipatory Project of the Enlightenment	p. 62
Transcendental Subjectivism	p. 65
The Demise of Transcendence	p. 68
The Crisis of Subjective Culture: Alienation and Nihilism	p. 76
Implications for Third World Development	p. 79
The Quest for Order	p. 85
Intentionality and Spontaneity	p. 86
Idea-Interest Interplay	p. 90
Truth and Order	p. 93
The Intellectual as a Catalyst	p. 97
Voices of Reform	p. 111
Early Contacts with the West	p. 112
Europe as a Civilizational Model	p. 114
Europe as a Menacing Other	p. 118
The Menace From Within	p. 123
The Roots of Arabism	p. 126
Concluding Remarks	p. 129
Growing in the Image of the West	p. 133
The Project of Westernization	p. 133
Arab Nationalism	p. 141
Concluding Remarks	p. 149
Islamic Reassertion	p. 153
Sayed Qutb: The Islamic Vanguard	p. 153
Malek Bennabi: Building a Civilization	p. 160
Concluding Remarks	p. 170
In Search of Authenticity	p. 173
Arab Marxism	p. 174
Arab Liberalism	p. 184
Concluding Remarks	p. 193
Bibliography	p. 201
Index	p. 207
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The Challenge of Modernity The Quest for Authenticity in the Arab World

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