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Nadia Bou Ali - Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic

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Av Nadia Bou Ali

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Psychoanalysis and the Love of Arabic reorients the debates around Arabic and global modernity in relation to psychoanalysis, capitalism and universality. The study offers the first psychoanalytic reading of 19th-century works written during the nahda movement by Ahmad Faris Shidyaq (1805 87) and Butrus al-Bustani (1819 83), showing how a curious relationship was forged between language and politics one driven by both a desire for, and anxiety about, modernity. In analysing the abstractness of national belonging as belonging to the language, author Nadia Bou Ali considers why modern Arabic grammarians fell in love with language again and explores how language became ideated as a 'mirror of the nation'.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-12-14
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
  • Vikt: 374 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 240
  • Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
  • ISBN: 9781474491747
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Nadia Bou Ali is Assistant Professor at the Civilization Studies Program at the American University of Beirut. She is co-editor of Lacan contra Foucault, subjectity, sex, and politics (Bloomsbury 2018) and her research interests revolve around modern Arabic intellectual history, critical theory and psychoanalysis.

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This is by far the most sophisticated study of the making of the modern Arab subject. Focussing on the region's 19th Century 'awakening', Nadia Bou Ali shows that it was debates about the Arabic language, rather than geography, ethnicity or religion, which came to constitute the privileged site for the conceptualisation as well as problematisation of history, nation and selfhood in the Middle East.

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