Social Justice and Intellectual Suppression
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The essential ideas in this book are that politics, or the art of acquiring the means of influence to achieve goals, are inherent in all human relations; that thought is split between the interacting subjective and objective variable factors and is constrained by interactive social relations; that intellectual conservatism cannot catch up with dynamic intellectual reality; that ideology restrains intellectual emancipation, and that on the basis of dynamic interaction among natural, social, cultural, political and psychological variable factors, and of the preponderant role being played by the political factor, the adopted view is that political and social relations among individuals, groups, states, and other entities involve social and intellectual injustice.
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Based on observed dynamic interaction among natural, socio-cultural and political factors, the main proposition adopted in the book is that politics are inherent in all human relations, that thought is constrained by interacting subjective and objective variable factors, that intellectual conservatism cannot catch up with dynamic intellectual reality, that ideology restrains intellectual emancipation, and that intellectual suppression is inherent in socio-political relations among individual and collective entities.
About the Author
Taysir Nashif earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in political Science and Arabic language and literature, and a Ph.D. degree in political science from the SUNY at Binghamton. He served as an assistant professor of sociology and Arabic at the University of Oran, Algeria, and Temple University, respectively. He served as a political affairs officer and an Arabic translator and reviser at the UN, NY. His published writings, in both English and Arabic, deal with socio-political change, nuclear disarmament and rise and decline of civilizations.