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Lebanese Political Parties - Dream of a Republic (Paperback)
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Lebanese Political Parties - Dream of a Republic (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
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This book examines Lebanese political parties and their encounters
with modernity. Taking three, mainly Christian parties as an
example, the book refutes the idea of Middle Eastern parties being
backwards or antiquated. By combining historical and
anthropological perspectives, it is shown that these parties stand
for normativities of modernity. Lebanese, as well as Middle Eastern
parties in general, have a rather poor reputation: they are
considered family-based, ideologically meaningless, tailored solely
to their leadership, and non-modern. Contrastingly, this book
claims that the concept of the "real party" corresponds to an
encounter with modernity and that these parties, although
dysfunctional in parts, are better than their reputation. Most
importantly, Lebanese parties are taking the nation-state as their
central reference point, as they recognise it as the legitimate
form of societal organization. The volume claims that important
constituents of modernity, such as the individual, the nation,
secularity, progress, and representing the people (demos), serve
for the parties in question as resources of utopian elements
informing much of these parties' identities. Bringing Lebanese
political parties into a global debate on modernity, the book
tackles the notion of parties of the Middle East being non-modern.
It will be of interest to scholars researching political science,
political history and the Middle East.
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