Problematics of Enlightenment: Human Reason, North African Philosophy, and the Global South - Hardcover

by Mourad Wahba (Author), Zeyad El Nabolsy (Translator), Zeyad El Nabolsy (Translator)

The Problematics of Enlightenment: Human Reason, North African Philosophy, and the Global South argues that the claim that human reason-not inherited social institutions--is the ultimate source of justification is a universalizable principle whose actualization would make progress possible in Egypt and elsewhere in the Global South.

Author Biography

Mourad Wahba is emeritus professor of philosophy, Ain Shams University.

Zeyad el Nabolsy is assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy at York University.