الفلسفة الراهنة والتحولات الاجتماعية

Abstract

The transformations of Arab societies from the first decade of the 20th century through the early 21st, marked by crises, have become a subject of critical examination. This examination seeks to uncover the causes and obstacles that led to this sudden change and to explore the possibility of finding a relative solution to these transformations within the Arab world's long-term modernization process. This process has been characterized by the sophisticated interaction of two intertwined shocks: the shock of colonialism, with its implications of lost sovereignty and deep, long-term political, economic, and cultural dependency; and the underlying shock of modernity, with its economic modernization, the construction of factories, transportation infrastructure, and dams, the introduction of modern means of travel and communication, urban planning, the establishment of a modern administration, and the implementation of a modern education system. Modern theories of political processes, which aim to explain the birth of the modern state, the guarantee of identity, the establishment of a specific legitimacy, and social integration, are considered general systemic issues.