The new Orientalists : postmodern representations of Islam from Foucault to Baudrillard /
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London :
I.B. Tauris,
2007.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=216721 |
Table of Contents:
- I. Islam and the critique of modernity. Nietzsche's peace with Islam ; Foucault's Iran and the madness of Islam ; Derrida's Islam and the peoples of the book
- II. Islam and postmodern fiction. Borges and the finitude of Islam ; The many Islams of Salman Rushdie ; Islam and melancholy in Orhan Pamuk's The black book
- III. Islam, 'theory' and Europe. Kristeva and Islam's time ; Islam and Baudrillard's last hope against the New World Order ; Iraq and the Hegelian legacy of ̆Zĭzek's Islam.