What is enlightenment? : continuity or rupture in the wake of the Arab uprisings / Mohammed D. Cherkaoui.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-377) and index.

Preface: 1. the Arab uprisings: the freedom-to question / Mohammed D. Cherkaoui -- Part I: Experimenting with social change: 2. Immanuel Kant in Tahrir Square / Mohammed D. Cherkaoui -- 3. Newtonian Force of the Arab Uprisings / Mohammed D. Cherkaoui and Hani Albasoos -- 4. The Battle for Syria: The Bloody Non-violent Protest / Mohammed D. Cherkaoui and Radwan Ziadeh -- Part II: Debating Reason and Modernity: 5. Revolutionary Mediatization and the New Arab Civil Sphere / Mohammed D. Cherkaoui -- 6. The Google-Earth Democracy: The Two-Legitimacy Conflict in Egypt / Mohammed D. Cherkaoui -- Part III: Connecting the Arab Public Sphere to the World: 7. How Do We Know What We "Know" about Politics and Reform in the Arab World? / Brian R. Calfano -- 8. Crafting Democracy: Political Learning as a Precondition for Sustainable Development in the Maghreb / John P. Entelis -- 9. Religion, Youth and Women in the Arab Region: Challenging Global Institutions and Politics of Development / Azza Karam -- Part IV: Predicting an Arab Age of Enlightenment: 10. Democracy against Social Reform: the Arab 'Spring' Faces its Demons / Albena Azmanova -- 11. Organizing Principles for the Arab Enlightenment: Philosophical Reflections on the History of Power / Solon J. Simmons -- 12. The 'Dialectic of Enlightenment' and the New Arab Awakening / Richard E. Rubenstein -- 13. An Arab Axial Age? / Mohammed D. Cherkaoui -- 14. Conclusion: Islamocracy or Demoslamic Politics? The New Dialectic / Mohammed D. Cherkaoui -- Bibliography.