Why Are The Arabs Not Free?: The Politics of Writing

Foreword by Colin MacCabe ix

Acknowledgements viii

Introduction 1

1 Components of Western Dominance 13

2 Questions that Have Been Forgotten in our Political Philosophy 27

3 Creative Transmission and Stagnant Transmission: Culture and Power 35

4 People and Writers 47

5 The Role of Language in the Creation of Culture 57

6 Writing and Power 67

7 The Fraud of the Islamic State 87

Further Reading 99

Index 103