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

ISBN: 978-1-4051-6171-8
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128 pages
June 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • A ground-breaking book written by the eminent Lacanian psychoanalyst Moustapha Safouan
  • Rejects explanations of Arab despotism which appeal either to imperialism or to notions of Arab culture in favour of an analysis which focuses on the relations between writing and power
  • Investigates the divorce between the classical Arabic which is the medium of education and the diverse vernacular Arabics which are the languages of the streets
  • A tour de force of political philosophy, religious argument and linguistic history

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