Sufism and Transcendentalism - Elham Shayegh

Sufism and Transcendentalism

A Poststructuralist Dialogue Between Rumi and Whitman

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Buch | Hardcover
140 Seiten
2020
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-1601-2 (ISBN)
99,95 inkl. MwSt
Sufism And Transcendentalism is a comparative study of Rumi and Whitman in which the parallelism of poetic style and content goes further to find common ground in challenging the conventional definitions of self and other.
The rhetoric of cultural identity generally goes in two potential directions: One a universal line that insists on an overall pattern of integration and harmony among all peoples regardless of their differences, and the other a line which suggests that various cultures are so specific and different that they will eventually enter into clash, violence and war. Drawing upon Derrida's concept of differance, I will point out that such rhetoric as examples of current political discourses fail to open the concept of cultural identity through redefining its relationship with otherness. This will be accompanied by poetry of Rumi and Whitman to suggest that their literary language through its non-dialectic characteristics is familiar with the problematic of identity and has the ability to form a cross-cultural dialogue. Sufism And Transcendentalism envisages the possibility of dialogue against the background of political conflict.

Elham Shayegh is associate professor of English at the American University of Armenia.

Introduction

Chapter I: A Postcolonial Otherness

Chapter II: Logocentrism

Chapter III: Cultural Dialogue

Chapter IV: Compromising Binaries

Chapter V: On Hospitality

Conclusion: A Poststructuralist Otherness

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Lanham, MD
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 231 mm
Gewicht 381 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Islam
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-7936-1601-9 / 1793616019
ISBN-13 978-1-7936-1601-2 / 9781793616012
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