Description
Enemy in the Mirror is a necessary corrective to a good deal of ill-considered polemic, one that has important implications for understanding all types of fundamentalism. Roxanne Euben makes convincing arguments, encouraging the reader to reconsider the origins of modern rationalism and anti-rationalism. Her insistence that political theory open its doors to consideration of questions drawn from other cultures is also saluta0ry and long overdue. -- Edmund Burke, III, University of California, Santa Cruz Roxanne Euben's argument that one should analyze Islamic fundamentalist thought not only for its function but also for its meaning--the intrinsic value of its ideas--is valid and absolutely timely. Enemy in the Mirror is a well-researched and impressive contribution to the analysis of Islamic political thought and to comparative political philosophy. -- Seyla Benhabib, Harvard University
About the Author
Roxanne L. Euben is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College, where she teaches political theory, comparative political theory, and feminist political thought.
Reviews
"[A] piercing book, lending the reader insights into the complex intermingling of religious and political ideas that are separate in the Western mind, but which form a spiritual union under Islam."--John A. C. Greppin, The Boston Book Review "Enemy in the Mirror offers an astute interdisciplinary study that calls on Western scholarship to take a short (irrational?) break from its instrumental rationality. This might help it to see that the scary face of Enemy/Other is depicted in a mirror that the modern rationality, for centuries, has held in front of its own face."--Alireza Shomali, International Journal of Middle East Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9780691058443
Author Roxanne L. Euben
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Princeton University Press
Publisher Princeton University Press
Weight(grams) 369g