• Lebanon: The Necessary Re-Appropriation of History and Conflict

    Author(s):
    Frank Darwiche (see profile)
    Date:
    2016
    Subject(s):
    Conflict management, Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976, Middle East, History
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Conflict, Conflict resolution, Heidegger, Middle Eastern history
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6KZ9G
    Abstract:
    This article underlines the need to call for a re-appropriation of history and the conflict dimension in Lebanon as the basis for a new departure. This re-appropriation is twofold: one goes back to the founding values, and one beyond the reassertion of such values, questioning the National Pact and Constitution and seeking to reconsider nationhood from the perspective of a new living-together that is meant to found a new history for the country and be the substratum for the emerging of new historical “events”: such living together is to take on a local and thus specific secular formula. The latter must be accompanied by a “productive conflict” acquiring a constant dialectic dimension. This in turn can be seen on various levels, including the religious and socio-economic. Finally, the deconstruction and reconstruction thus effected may only endure if they are accompanied by new shared conceptual complexes that take their departure from reconsiderations of language and textuality pertaining to complexes such as earth-land-homeland-space and the spiritual, all necessitating communicative rationality, in Habermas’s sense.
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    Published as:
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    Publisher:
    University of Balamand
    Pub. Date:
    2016
    Proceeding:
    Identity and Conflict in the Middle East and its Diasporic Cultures
    Page Range:
    95 - 108
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    5 years ago
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    All Rights Reserved
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