Arab Existentialism: What Was It?

Di-Capua, Yoav

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“…Wines, Michael D. Hannon, Natasha Howard, and Isaac Burt, 'Black existentialism: Extending investigations of Arab existentialism or analyses of Beauvoir's work on race and racism. 72 At stake in such intellectual liaisons is the issue of whether existentialism, broadly construed, helps or hinders the decolonisation of IR.…”

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Existentialism and International Relations: In it up to our necks

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O’Driscoll

2023

Rev. Int. Stud.

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What, this essay asks, is the relation between contemporary IR scholarship and the existentialist intellectual and cultural tradition? How is our discipline informed and animated by existentialist thinking? Is existentialism a heritage to be recovered, claimed, and embraced by IR scholars, or a shadow to be escaped? And what resources does it furnish us for thinking through the kind of issues that IR scholars are called upon to grapple with today? These questions are not purely theoretical. There are practical and political reasons, not only for considering them, but for considering them now. Living through what has been termed an unfolding ‘Age of Anxiety’, we find ourselves confronted by existential questions and existentialist ideas at almost every turn. It is, however, unclear how substantive or meaningful this apparently existentialist moment truly is. Does existentialism have something to say to contemporary IR, or does it flatter to deceive? We think the time is ripe to take stock of existentialism as it relates to IR and global politics. This is the purpose of this article and of the collection of essays it introduces.

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Existentialism and International Relations: In it up to our necks

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O’Driscoll

2023

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“…As Yoav Di-Capua has shown, these efforts were especially put in practice by al-Adab (Literatures), a magazine founded in 1953 in Beirut that became the main proponent of Arab existentialism and leftist versions of committed literature. 74 I view al-Adab more as a generational than an ideological project, a product of the 1940s cultural battles in which both Islamists and leftists took part. The continuity between these battles and al-Adab is suggested by the fact that some who revolted against the senior literati in the 1940s joined al-Adab as regular writers in the 1950s.…”

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Sayyid Qutb and the Crisis of Culture in Late 1940s Egypt

Sabaseviciute

2018

Int. J. Middle East Stud.

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This article focuses on the writings and literary networks of the Egyptian intellectual and activist Sayyid Qutb during the late 1940s. Scholars have tended to explain Qutb's political radicalization and joining of the Muslim Brotherhood during the subsequent decade via aspects of his personality or personal life, such as his quick temper, conservatism, or frustration over unfulfilled aspirations to become a writer. Drawing on three periodicals published respectively by leftist, Islamist, and independent aspiring writers, I instead place Qutb's criticism of political, economic, and cultural elites in the context of an emerging generation of critical intellectuals. By shedding light on intellectual cooperation between Qutb, Muslim Brothers, Marxists, and independent writers, this article challenges established scholarly narratives that locate the Islamist project outside the Egyptian intellectual field.

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Arab Existentialism: What Was It?

Cited by 2 publications

References 7 publications

Existentialism and International Relations: In it up to our necks

Existentialism and International Relations: In it up to our necks

Sayyid Qutb and the Crisis of Culture in Late 1940s Egypt

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