This book grapples with the renaissance fervor amid the dominance of a regressive will.

Key themes include: the Arab narcissistic wound, the duality of advocacy and critique, the culture of hate, the theology of denying the other, illness by the West, the decline of Marxism, fear of globalization, Islam and the feminist issue, the other in Arab-Islamic heritage, heresy and the slain reason, heritage and the questions of modernity, identity and identification, open versus closed culture, repressed philosophical questions, modernization and westernization, and the roots and wings dialectic.

Dialogues featured in the book involve: Qasim Amin, Taha Hussein, Zaki al-Arsuzi, Yassin al-Hafiz, Naguib Mahfouz, Mohamed Arkoun, Galal Ahmed Amin, and other representatives of Arab intelligentsia.

Publishing house: Dar Al Saqi for Publishing and Distribution

Number of Pages: 192

Year of publication: 2000