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Throughout history, Shari'ati reminds us in these lectures and writings, people in search of deliverance from constricting social and intellectual systems have all too often followed influential thinkers out of one form of captivity and directly into another. He warns that great case must be taken in this day of search and upheaval to examine the prevailing movements that promise solutions for humanity.Marxism, which holds special appeal for the world's oppressed peoples and those sensitive to their suffering because of its emphasis on justice, merits particularly close scrutiny. Shari'ati analyzes its roots in materialism, its relation to the Hegelian dialectic, its preoccupation with matters of production, the sources of its diametrical opposition to Islam, Marx's objection to religion, and other crucial aspects to Marxism.But his attention is not confined to Marxism alone. He discusses the established religions, bourgeois liberalism, and existentialism, beginning with their fundamental notions of man. He examines the characteristic refusal of the major freedom-seeking movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to accept any spiritual dimension in man. Throughout his inquiry, Shari'ati offers comparisons with the ideology of Islam, drawing upon the principles and precepts contained in the Qur'an as well as cultural material from the history of Islamic society. Gradually and eloquently, he expounds his personal view of Islam as the philosophy of human liberation. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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After reading this text, I am not sure I can answer that question, but what I can express is my utter disappointment with this text. This is a dull, basic reading of "Western" philosophy, and its dismissiveness should have been obvious to me by the title itself, but I was expecting something much more engaging. In one sentence, Shariati's issue with Marxism is its incapability to address the "mystic" and the "spiritual", and the reader is supposed to be convinced that these two elements are necessary for any society to function effectively -- actually, it is fruitless to disparage this text because it has the same arguments as any Islamist attempt at deconstructing "Western" ideologies: "too materialist", "where is the morality?", "our civilization is the best".
I am certainly not convinced that Shariati knew his history or his anthropology, and am deeply doubtful of his grasp of classical sociology.
This text can only be appreciated as a readable and perhaps as a more sincerely intellectual Islamist reading of Marxism and existentialism, so if you wish to write a thesis on Islamist readings of Marxism, this text is definitely a very good introduction. ( )