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It's always good to see discussions like this. As background, the Saudi govt endorsement of the very anti-Semitic Ali translation has done substantial damage, not lead to the reputation of the Saudi government. I wonder, reading this item, if it's even more harshly anti-Shi'a.1/
Looking at the underlying Brookings report from Mandaville and Hamid, I find no discussion of the translation issue, which is worth looking into. See linked essay. But this is a welcome essay for non-experts like me: the repeated mentions of "complexity" alone signal that we're2/
no longer in the cage of binarism build by Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington. Inter alia, this study ought to lead readers to the other fine studies from Hamid and Mandaville. 3/
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Here is a further thought on this book, which the editors may well have covered -- I have not read through it yet -- but that I think merits attention.
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risk is revealed by some current discussions over whether USA is a "democracy" or "republic." People (often with their own agendas) who insist on the latter. And Madison certainly was influential in cementing that notion.
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I just re-read Marcel Mauss' classic, The Gift (Le Don). Wow. What is stunning is that after talking about gift-giving as a "total social fact" that holds "primitive" society (Maori, Andaman, etc) together, Mauss returns to the France of 1925, emphasizing integrative 1/
forces there as well, including corporate contributions to reduce unemployment, and unionization: "This is not an upheaval, but a return to law, the dawn of professional morality and corporate law.... Nous revenons donc à une morale de groupes," we return to group morality. 2/
Striking primitive - modern feedback loop. Influenced Finley's World of Odysseus more than Polanyi, emphasizing that society is more than a profit-maximizing machine. "Toute cette morale corresponde, non pas à un trouble, mais à un retour au droit." Imagine. 3/
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