Fagan, Teresa Lavender

Islam and the West : a conversation with Jacques Derrida by Jacques Derrida ( Book )
5 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 431 libraries worldwide
"In the spring of 2003, Jacques Derrida sat down for a public debate in Paris with Algerian intellectual Mustapha Cherif. The eminent philosopher arrived at the event directly from the hospital where he had just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the illness that would take his life just over a year later. That he still participated in the exchange testifies to the magnitude of the subject at hand: the increasingly distressed relationship between Islam and the West, and the questions of freedom, justice, and democracy that surround it." "As Cherif relates in this account of their dialogue, the topic of Islam held special resonance for Derrida - perhaps it is to be expected that near the end of his life his thoughts would return to Algeria, the country where he was born in 1930. Indeed, these roots served as the impetus for their conversation, which first centers on the ways in which Derrida's Algerian-Jewish identity has shaped his thinking. From there, the two men move to broader questions of secularism and democracy; to politics and religion and how the former manipulates the latter; and to the parallels between xenophobia in the West and fanaticism among Islamists." "Ultimately, the discussion is an attempt to tear down the notion that Islam and the West are two civilizations locked in a bitter struggle for supremacy and to reconsider them as the two shores of the Mediterranean - two halves of the same geographical, religious, and cultural sphere. Islam and the West is a crucial opportunity to further our understanding of Derrida's views on the key political and religious divisions of our time an often moving testament to the power of friendship and solidarity to surmount them."--BOOK JACKET.

Google and the myth of universal knowledge a view from Europe by Jean Noël Jeanneney ( Book )
4 editions published between 2006 and 2007 in English and held by 321 libraries worldwide
The recent announcement that Google would digitize the holdings of several major libraries sent shock waves through the book industry and academe. Google presented this digital repository as a first step towards a long-dreamed-of universal library, but skeptics were quick to raise a number of concerns about the potential for copyright infringement and unanticipated effects on the business of research and publishing. Jean-Noël Jeanneney, president of France?s Bibliothèque Nationale, here takes aim at what he sees as a far more troubling aspect of Google?s Library Project: its potential to misre.

Incidents by Roland Barthes ( Book )
2 editions published in 2010 in French and English and held by 97 libraries worldwide

Ancestor of the West writing, reasoning, and religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece by Jean Bottéro ( Book )
3 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide

Satan the heretic : the birth of demonology in medieval west by Alain Boureau ( Book )
2 editions published in 2006 in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide

Sardinian chronicles by Bernard Lortat-Jacob ( Book )
2 editions published between 1994 and 1995 in English and held by 4 libraries worldwide

Intellectuals in the Middle Ages by Jacques Le Goff ( Book )
1 edition published in 1993 in English and held by 4 libraries worldwide

The Byzantines ( Book )
1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 4 libraries worldwide

Vegetables : a biography by Evelyne Bloch-Dano ( Book )
1 edition published in 2011 in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide

Ghosts in the Middle Ages the living and the dead in Medieval society by Jean-Claude Schmitt ( Book )
1 edition published in 1998 in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide