No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Decolonization - P

No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Decolonization - Paperback

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by Yoav Di-Capua (Author)

It is a curious and relatively little-known fact that for two decades-from the end of World War II until the late 1960s-existentialism's most fertile ground outside of Europe was in the Middle East, and Jean-Paul Sartre was the Arab intelligentsia's uncontested champion. In the Arab world, neither before nor since has another Western intellectual been so widely translated, debated, and celebrated.

By closely following the remarkable career of Arab existentialism, Yoav Di-Capua reconstructs the cosmopolitan milieu of the generation that tried to articulate a political and philosophical vision for an egalitarian postcolonial world. He tells this story by touring a fascinating selection of Arabic and Hebrew archives, including unpublished diaries and interviews. Tragically, the warm and hopeful relationships forged between Arab intellectuals, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and others ended when, on the eve of the 1967 war, Sartre failed to embrace the Palestinian cause. Today, when the prospect of global ethical engagement seems to be slipping ever farther out of reach, No Exit provides a timely, humanistic account of the intellectual hopes, struggles, and victories that shaped the Arab experience of decolonization and a delightfully wide-ranging excavation of existentialism's non-Western history.

Author Biography

Yoav Di-Capua is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

Number of Pages: 336

Dimensions: 0.8 x 9 x 6 IN

Illustrated: Yes

Publication Date: March 30, 2018

Name : No Exit: Arab Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Decolonization - Paperback
Vendor : BooksCloud
Type : Books
Manufacturing : 2025 / 09 / 24
Barcode : 9780226503509