Challenge Of Modernity Book

	Preface
	Introduction
1	Modernization Theory	1
	Parsonian Legacy and the Functionalist Approach	1
	Discrepancy and Ambiguity	7
	The Meaning of Modernization	9
	Expansion of Western Centers	13
	From Modern Culture to Cultural Modernity	18
2	The Marxian Model of Development	23
	Historical Materialism	24
	The Reductionist Interpretation	28
	The Revisionist Interpretation	34
3	The Weberian Model of Development	45
	Modernization as Rationalization	45
	The Orientation of Action	48
	The Disenchantment of the World	52
	The Weberian Paradox	56
4	The Eclipse of Substantive Rationality	61
	The Emancipatory Project of the Enlightenment	62
	Transcendental Subjectivism	65
	The Demise of Transcendence	68
	The Crisis of Subjective Culture: Alienation and Nihilism	76
	Implications for Third World Development	79
5	The Quest for Order	85
	Intentionality and Spontaneity	86
	Idea-Interest Interplay	90
	Truth and Order	93
	The Intellectual as a Catalyst	97
6	Voices of Reform	111
	Early Contacts with the West	112
	Europe as a Civilizational Model	114
	Europe as a Menacing Other	118
	The Menace From Within	123
	The Roots of Arabism	126
	Concluding Remarks	129
7	Growing in the Image of the West	133
	The Project of Westernization	133
	Arab Nationalism	141
	Concluding Remarks	149
8	Islamic Reassertion	153
	Sayed Qutb: The Islamic Vanguard	153
	Malek Bennabi: Building a Civilization	160
	Concluding Remarks	170
9	In Search of Authenticity	173
	Arab Marxism	174
	Arab Liberalism	184
	Concluding Remarks	193
	Bibliography	201
	Index	207