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Contemporary Arab Thought: Cultural Critique in Comparative Perspective by Professor Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, Es Kassab Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-231-14489-X / 023114489X ISBN-13: 978-0-231-14489-6 / 9780231144896 During the second half of the twentieth century, the Arab intellectual and political scene polarized between a search for totalizing doctrines--nationalist, Marxist, and religious--and radical critique. Arab thinkers were reacting to the disenchanting experience of postindependence Arab states, as w |