Vol. 2 No. 008 (2014): Issue 008

غلاف العدد 8 من دورية تبيّن

Issue 8 of Tabayyun (2014) includes the following studies and articles: “Abdallah Laroui: An Intellectual in Perspective” (Yahya bin al-Walid); “Conceptualizing the World as a Procedural Tool for Reading the History of Philosophical Thought” (Eltayeb Bouazza); “Divine Absence in the Thought of Martin Heidegger” (Mouchir Basil Aoun); “Snares of Migrant Modernity” (Abdel-Aleem Mohammed Ismail Ali); “The End of Small Narratives: Transcending the Postmodernist Thesis” (Nader Kadhim); “Awareness of the Present and Prediction of the Future in the Tunisian Novel” (Mahmoud Tarchouna); “The Anthropology of the Erring Human in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur” (Mostafa Aref); “Disease: An Ethical Hermeneutic Approach” (Nasser Amara); “The Constitutional Question and the Problem of Democratization: The Case of Morocco” (Jaouad Rabaa); “The Role of Oral History: Concepts, Methods, and Research in the Arab World (Beirut, February 21-23, 2014)” (Editorial Board of Tabayyun); “Stages of Hermeneutics by Jean Molino” (Abboud Kassouha); “The Hermeneutical Turn of Phenomenology by Jean Grondin” (Kamel Tirchi); “Digging into the Process of Turning a Community into a Minority” (Marlène Nasr); “Book Features” (Ziad mouna).

Published: 2014-11-01

Studies

  • Abdallah Laroui: An Intellectual in Perspective

    Author: Yahya bin al-Walid
    07-22

    Shedding light on Abdallah Laroui, one of the most important contemporary Arab thinkers to date, and boasting a legacy that spans from his homeland Morocco to the Arab region as a whole, Bin...

  • Conceptualizing the World as a Procedural Tool for Reading the History of Philosophical Thought

    Author: Eltayeb Bouazza
    23-34

    This study concerns itself with the establishment of proper methodological foundations for studying the human phenomenon. It illustrates how this concept, since the writings of Wilhelm Dilthey,...

  • Divine Absence in the Thought of Martin Heidegger

    Author: Mouchir Basil Aoun
    35-56

    This analysis rests upon elucidating the links Heidegger establishes between the existence of Being and the truth of God. Through an interrogation of Heidegger’s German texts on the matter of...

  • Snares of Migrant Modernity

    Author: Abdel-Aleem Mohammed Ismail Ali
    57-72

    This study aims to sharpen one’s understanding of the “modern,” and examine the concept of modernism in art, philosophy, and sociology. It identifies the fundamental features of modernity, and...

  • The End of Small Narratives: Transcending the Postmodernist Thesis

    Author: Nader Kadhim
    73-90

    The postmodernist claim is that the time for grand narratives on progress, enlightenment, revolution, and the like is over. It also claims that the present age is one of smaller narratives that...

  • Awareness of the Present and Prediction of the Future in the Tunisian Novel

    Author: Mahmoud Tarchouna
    91-104

    The study departs from the words of the French critic and novelist Michel Butor: “A novel that is an expression of a changing society becomes an expression of a society aware that it is...

  • The Anthropology of the Erring Human in the Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur

    Author: Mostafa Aref
    105-114

    According to Ricoeur, the central human question concerns the search for the human element in evil and its point of connection with human reality, and he addresses the concept in the beginning...

  • Disease: An Ethical Hermeneutic Approach

    Author: Nasser Amara
    115-124

    This study examines the interpretation of disease as a manifestation of a deep, internal ethical life present in the body to expose the life that hides, grows, and camouflages itself to escape...

  • The Constitutional Question and the Problem of Democratization: The Case of Morocco

    Author: Jaouad Rabaa
    125-143

    Researching the topic of constitution, and the topic of forging a democratic state, is considered of the utmost importance in any society. This is true on the level of scientific knowledge as...

Reports

  • The Role of Oral History: Concepts, Methods, and Research in the Arab World (Beirut, February 21-23, 2014)

    Author: Editorial Board of Tabayyun
    195-203

    The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) held its first annual conference dedicated to the field of history and titled: "The Role of Oral History: Concept, Methods and Research in...

From the Library

  • Stages of Hermeneutics by Jean Molino

    Author: Abboud Kassouha
    147-164

    Consciously or not, the purpose of all human sciences is significations. Accordingly, all lessons ought to be learned from hermeneutics, as it is the science of interpretation. Whether we are...

Book Reviews

  • The Hermeneutical Turn of Phenomenology by Jean Grondin

    Author: Kamel Tirchi
    167-174

    An Arabic translation of the book, The Hermeneutic Turn of the Phenomenology, by Jean Grondin, was published by Dar Al Ikhtilaf in collaboration with the Arabic House of Sciences. A huge effort...

  • Digging into the Process of Turning a Community into a Minority

    Author: Marlène Nasr
    175-184

    The writer depicts how the church authority gave birth to its nemesis by exerting increasing control over religious rituals and practices. Because of this control, Copts were inclined to adopt...

  • Book Features

    Author: Ziad mouna
    185-192

    Researcher Ziad Mona reviews important books such as: What Art Is? by Arthur C. Dantu; Picasso and the Truth: from Cubism to Guernica by Timothy James Clark; How to Read Literature by Terry...