Search: Islamic State,Premodernism,Society (2 materials)

Imperatives of Neomodernism for the Middle East

... and the pre-modern one is that the archaic narrative (and not only archaic) is not initially given (as in the case of genuine premodernism), but results from a conscious choice, while the latter is a modernist phenomenon. Lucas Dolega of EPA What do young men and women that travel to the Islamic State seek? Young people discussed it in 2011 on Tunisia’s central Bourguiba Avenue and Egypt’s Tahrir ... ... distinguish certain aspects of the latter. Obviously, the first such problem is what V. Naumkin called curing the “ diseases of society ” that push young people to radical ideologies. Accordingly, the question arises: What do young men and women that ...

20.05.2016

Premodernism revisited

... consider the transformation that has thrown the Middle East into chaos as the revival of premodernism and the primordial forms of societal organization. However, the epoch of... ... forms and foundations for social integration. At the same time, similar to the modern society that preceded it, the postmodernist arrangement generates more ancient and deeper... ... the rebirth of pre-modernism and deep-rooted principles of social integration. The Islamic State’s ideology rests on a request for profound social integration, distinct...

04.04.2016

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