Vol. 3 No. 010 (2014): Issue 010

غلاف العدد 10 من دورية تبيّن

Issue 10 of Tabayyun (2014) includes the following studies and articles: “Legitimacy of Studying Jean Jacques Rousseau and the “Confession” Philosophically and from an Arab Perspective” (Hossam al-Din Darwish); “A Psycho-Analytical Reading of the Story of Joseph: Before Oedipus, a Brotherhood Complex” (Hassan Moudden); “The Concept of Freedom in Contemporary Islamic Thought” (Mohamed al-Msaoui); “The Problem of Determinism and Freedom in History from the Perspective of Ernst Cassirer” (Fouad Makhoukh); “Political Speech, from Possibility to Action: a Semiotic Approach” (Abdelmjid Noussi); “I'rāb Theory: A reading on “the New Alternative” by Tamam Hassan” (Abdenbi Hamani); “Al-Jabri: The State in Islam-Between Concept and History” (Chamseddin Alkilani); “The Internationalization of Modern Arabic Literature: From Naguib Mahfouz’s Nobel Prize to The Yacoubian Building” (Mohamed el-Garti); “Epistemological Approach in Modern Arab Linguistic Writing” (Mohamed el-Mallakh); “John Gray and Philosophizing with a Different Vision: A Brief Tour of Gray’s Thought” (Elnour Hamad); “On the Disadvantages and Advantages of Death” (Umberto Eco).

Published: 2014-05-01

Studies

  • Legitimacy of Studying Jean Jacques Rousseau and the “Confession” Philosophically and from an Arab Perspective

    Author: Hossam al-Din Darwish
    07-36

    This is a study about the possible legitimacy of studying Jean Jacques Rousseau and his theory of the confession from a philosophical perspective, and from an Arab perspective. In terms of the...

  • A Psycho-Analytical Reading of the Story of Joseph: Before Oedipus, a Brotherhood Complex

    Author: Hassan Moudden
    37-47

    Psychological studies in modern Arabic criticism as an attempt to read Arabic literature, ancient and modern, started from the complexes proposed by psychanalysis, that, following Sigmund Freud,...

  • The Concept of Freedom in Contemporary Islamic Thought

    Author: Mohamed al-Msaoui
    49-68

    Al- Masawi provides a critical reading of the concept of freedom in contemporary Islamic thought and provides a close reading of the contemporary output of Islamic political thought and the most...

  • The Problem of Determinism and Freedom in History from the Perspective of Ernst Cassirer

    Author: Fouad Makhoukh
    69-83

    Fouad Makhoukh discusses the problem of determinism and freedom in history, as addressed by the German philosopher Ernst Cassirer and as seen in his response to a series of philosophical...

  • Political Speech, from Possibility to Action: a Semiotic Approach

    Author: Abdelmjid Noussi
    85-108

    This study considers the Algiers Declaration (1988), which provided a basis for the establishment of the State of Palestine, highlighting its enfranchising character as political oration. In...

Discussions

  • I'rāb Theory: A reading on “the New Alternative” by Tamam Hassan

    Author: Abdenbi Hamani
    119-138

    This study takes up Tammam Hassan’s critique of the I‘rāb (inflection) theory, which the late Arabic linguist attempted to replace with his notion of “combined evidence” as a “new alternative”:...

  • Al-Jabri: The State in Islam-Between Concept and History

    Author: Chamseddin Alkilani
    139-152

    In his critical program al-Jabri starts from the assumption that the authority of inherited sources made a group of us see authenticity in the tradition alone and in the return to it,...

  • The Internationalization of Modern Arabic Literature: From Naguib Mahfouz’s Nobel Prize to The Yacoubian Building

    Author: Mohamed el-Garti
    153-160

    With regard to the Arab world, it is surprising to see that in fact literature written in French, which was thought to be linked with the colonial moment and destined to disappear...

  • Epistemological Approach in Modern Arab Linguistic Writing

    Author: Mohamed el-Mallakh
    161-168

    In his book The Epistemological Foundations for Linguistic Theory Mohammed al-Amri debates epistemological theories with the aim of deconstructing the foundations of discourse and the episteme...

  • John Gray and Philosophizing with a Different Vision: A Brief Tour of Gray’s Thought

    Author: Elnour Hamad
    169-179

    According to English political philosopher John Gray, the divide between human silence and the silence of animals hinges on the use of language. This does not mean that animals lack language,...

From the Library

  • On the Disadvantages and Advantages of Death

    Author: Umberto Eco
    111-116

    Philosophy may have begun when people started thinking about the beginning—or the arché, as the pre-Socratics teach us—but it is equally probable that such reflections were inspired by the...