caa a22 4500 388101490 CHVBK 20180307125322.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199905 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0020743800054015 doi S0020743800054015 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0020743800054015 Jackson Sherman A. The Alchemy of Domination? Some Asharite Responses to Muʾtazilite Ethics [Elektronische Daten] [Sherman A. Jackson] In his provocative essay Knowledge and Politics, Harvard Law School professor Roberto Unger undertook what has since become a familiar critique of the contemporary social and political order. Beginning with the main postulates of Enlightenment epistemology, Unger contended that our acceptance of "liberal philosophy” has divided us, as moral beings, between the private world of value and desire and the public world of rules and reason. Since, moreover, reason functions as the medium of public (and ostensibly egalitarian) discourse, its inevitable exaltation over desire threatens, where it does not undermine, our sense of self and personality. Modern man, according to Unger, is inextricably ensconced between the irreconcilable poles of individuality and citizenship. From religious fundamentalism to Afro-centrism, from classical and radical feminism to multi-culturalism, modernity is evolving into an endless concatenation of reactions against the threat of domination that lurks beneath the demand to justify personal values and predilections through the impersonal language of reason, a medium over which some of us possess greater mastery than others, even if, as moderns (or perhaps post-moderns) we recognize that reason is not autonomous but can operate only in the interest of values already present. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/2(1999-05), 185-201 0020-7438 31:2<185 1999 31 MES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800054015 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020743800054015 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Jackson Sherman A. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/2(1999-05), 185-201 0020-7438 31:2<185 1999 31 MES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge