Metaphysical Institutions : Islam and the Modern Project (Suny series in Islam)

Dagli, Caner K.

State University of New York Press（2024/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 311 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438497006
• DDC分類 909.09767

Full Description

Uses the intellectual encounter between Islam and modernity to explore the nature of culture, civilization, religion, and tradition.

In Metaphysical Institutions, Caner K. Dagli explores the ultimate nature of the realities we call religions, cultures, civilizations, and traditions through the lens of a particular question often limited to religious studies, history, and anthropology, namely: "What is Islam?" The book is both a philosophical treatise about the nature of shared thinking that uses the encounter between the Modern Project and Islam as an illustrative example, and an exploration of the conceptualization of Islam in light of the metaphysics of consciousness and meaning.

Dagli first develops a comprehensive theory of the institution and then expands its meaning to include a new category called "metaphysical institutions," with the goal of establishing both necessary and empirically variable features of all institutions, including those that deal with ultimate questions. The new model is then used to analyze questions of authority and autonomy, rationality and imitation, the universal and the particular, and other enduring questions.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Institutions

1. What Kind of Thing Is Islam?

2. The Nature of Institutions and Shared Thinking

Part II: Metaphysics

3. The Metaphysics of Antidualism

4. The Metaphysics of Meaning

5. The Metaphysics of Paradox

Part III: Islam and the Modern Project

6. The Language Analogy

7. Project and Tradition

8. One Islam, Many Islams, or No Islam?

Conclusion The Sighted Men and the Elephant

Notes
Works Cited
Index