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100	1		_aAbdennur, Alexander, _d1945-
245	1	4	_aThe Arab Mind : _ban Ontology of Abstraction and Concreteness / _cAlexander Abdennur.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aOttawa, ON : _bKogna Publishing, _c2008.
300			_ax, 326 p. : _bill. (some col.) ; _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and an index.
505			_aPart I Introduction _t1. Research on the Arab National Character _t2. Cognitive-Epistemological Research _t3. The Focus of the Present Study
505			_aPart II Comprehensive Conceptions of the Arab Mind _t1. Patai’s Characteristics of the Arab Mind _t2. Al-Jabiri’s Characteristics of the Arab Mind _t3. Tarabishi’s Critique of Al-Jabiri _t4. Comments on Al-Jabiri’s Work _t5. The Contribution of Ali Al-Wardi _t6. The Aristocratic Profile of the Bedouin _t7. Al-Wardi’s Focal Question
505			_aPart III The Epistemic Orientation of the Arab Culture: An Empirical Investigation _t1. Cognitive styles _t2. Learning Styles _t3. Thinking Styles _t4. Psycho-Epistemic Styles _t5. The Epistemic Orientation Model _t6. Stability and Heritability of Styles _t7. Epistemic Orientations of Cultures _t8. The Study
505			_aPart IV The Arab Mind as a Function of the Rational Epistemic Orientation
505			_aa) Religious Dogma and Secular Ideology _t1. The Arab Mind Is Global rather than Holistic _t2. The Arab Mind Is “Emotional” _t3. The Arab Mind is confrontational and Polemical _t4. The Arab mind is Radical
505			_ab) Cause Location Catalyzed by Contempt _t5. The Arab Mind Is Focused on the Right of Society
505			_ac) A Revolution from the Top _t6. The Arab Mind Is Active in the Defence of Culture _t7. The Arab Mind Allows for Intellectual Holds on Behaviour _t8. The Arab Mind Is Retentive and Extravagant in Information _t9. The Arab Mind Integrates Ultimate Values with the Political _t10. Abstraction in Honour, Body, Arms, Revenge, & Memory _t11. Abstraction and Allegiance _t12. When Abstraction Fails: Narration as Integration _t13. The Arab Mind Affirms Two-Dimensional Thought
505			_aPart V The Arab Mind as a Function of the Isolation Mechanism
505			_aWhy Are You “Jerking” Them?
505			_aThe Splitting Mechanism
505			_aThe Isolation Mechanism _t1. The Isolation between Intention and Action _t2. The promise: Further Analysis _t3. Isolation among Three Planes: Thoughts, Words, and Actions _t4. Isolation between a Negative Statement and its Target _t5. The Isolation between Small Quantity and Big Aggression _t6. Is There Arab Deficiency in Converting Quality to Quantity? _t7. The Isolation between Small Aggression and Big Aggression _t8. Isolation between the Divine and Mundane Realms
505			_aPart VI The “Spell” of the Arabic Language _t1. The strengths of the Arabic Language _t2. The Spell of the Arabic Language _t3. Basic Epistemology _t4. Marcuse, Rand, and Royce _t5. A Subatomic Model of Concepts _t6. The Extreme Expression of the Three Concepts _t7. Concepts as Energy Activators _t8. Surplus Energy in Jokes _t9. The “Spell”: As Surplus Affect Generated by Arabic Syntax _t10. Prospects of the Arabic Language
505			_aPart VII From Two-Dimensional Thinking to Multi-Dimensional Thinking: A Grand Cognitive and Affective Space _t1. The Rational Epistemic Orientation as Two-Dimensional thinking _t2. Conscious Ambivalence as Two-Dimensional Affect _t3. The Planes of Speech, Thought, and Action as Three-Dimensional Thought _t4. Anger, Fear, and Contempt as Three-Dimensional Affect
505			_aContempt and the Pizza Model of North America _t5. Three Autonomous Dimensions as a Personality Profile _t6. Three-Dimensional Negating: Negation of Negating Entities _t7. Three-Dimensions at the Literacy Domain _t8. Three Planes and Three Levels of Hostility Expression _t9. Is Martyrdom Suicide three-dimensional?
505			_aPart VIII Other Creative and Socially Redeeming Features of the Arab Mind _t1. Shamata: An Aesthetic Sentiment _t2. The Aesthetics of the Grand Statement _t3. The Integration of Drama into Real Life _t4. Al-Hishma as the Negation of Exhibitionism _t5. The Objectification of the Subjective _t6. Arab Hospitality as Antidepressant _t7. Al-Sabr: A Discipline Needed in Contemporary Living _tConclusion
505			_aPart IX From Multi-Dimensional Thinking to Dual and Dichotomous Thinking: The State of Intellectual Retreat
505			_aDuality as Splitting and Crude Adaptation
505			_aWhy Duality?
505			_aWhy the Worst of Both? _t1. A Bicultural Duality? _t2. A Moral Duality _t3. A Dual Behaviour with Money _t4. An Ecological Duality
505			_aDichotomous Thinking as Non-Dialectical and Inadequate Thinking _t1. Analysis as Diagnosis _t2. Progression of Dichotomous Thought Toward Absolute _t3. The Global-Concrete Dichotomy _t4. The Arab vs. West Dichotomy _t5. The Dichotomous Perspective toward the Arabic Language _t6. Dichotomy within Self-Identity _t7. Dichotomy between Modernity and Backwardness _t8. Dual and Dichotomous Thinking and Creativity
505			_aConspiracy Thinking: The Vibe and the Dichotomous _t1. Conspiracy Thinking has an Affinity to a Rational Style _t2. Characteristics of Conspiracy Thinking _t3. The Impact of Intellectual Skills on Conspiracy Thinking _t4. Conspiracy Denial _t5. Conspiracy Thinking and Paranoid Thinking _t6. Not all Arab Attributions of Ill Intentions are Conspiracy _t7. The Dichotomy in Conspiracy Thinking _t8. Positive Functions of Conspiracy Thinking _tConclusion
505			_aPart XI Social Catalysts of Cultural Collapse _t1. A Paramount Question _t2. The State of Cultural Retreat _t3. Two Significant Conditions for Cultural Retreat _t4. Mercantilism as Small Size and Utilitarian Norms _t5. Cultural Integrity and Mercantilism _tPolitical Mercantilism _tAnti-Intellectual Political Parties _tCognitive Analysis of Anti-Ideological Political Parties _tCognitive Analysis of Anti-Ideological Political Parties _t6. The Collapsed Juxtaposed to the Successful and the Ideal _t7. The Chinese Yin/Yang versus Arab Abstract/Concrete Divide _t8. The Palestinian Expression of the Abstract/Concrete Divide _t9. Cultural Collapse: Summary and Conclusion _t10. Secularism and Religious Dogma
505			_aPart XII A Personality Catalyst towards Cultural Collapse _t1. Conflict Avoidance as a Generalized Personality Syndrome _t2. Conflict Reconciliation as a Generalized Personality Syndrome _t3. Individual Embodiments of Conflict Reconciliation _t4. The Three Catalyst of Collapse _t5. Deliverance _t6. The Achilles Heel of the Arab Mind: Al-Maqtal _t7. Prophylactic Considerations
505			_aPart XIII Comparative, Educational, and Communication Issues and Challenges _t1. The Anglo-American and Arab Epistemic Orientations _t2. The Germanic and Arab Epistemic Orientation _t3. The Educational Implications of the Arab Mind _t4. Training in Abstract and Critical Reasoning _t5. Cross-Cultural Communication Difficulties _t6. Arab Music as a Victim of Collapse Anxiety _t7. Collapse Anxiety and the Resistance to Marxism _t8. Contemporary Threats and Challenges to the Arab Mind _t9. Meeting Challenges of the Times
505			_aPart XIV The Ontological Status of Abstraction and Concreteness: with a Critical Rebuttal from the Arab Mind _t1. The Ontology of Concreteness in Crime _t2. The Ontology of Concreteness in Charity _t3. The Ontology of Abstraction in Hostility _t4. The Naturalization of Social Behaviours: The Grand Ontological Deception _t5. The Ontology of Intellectual Simplicity _t6. The Ontological Implications of Benthamian Ideas _t7. Ideology is Not Coming to an End _t8. The Achilles Heel of Contemporary Western Society _t9. Political Safe Arms _t10. The Power of de facto _t11. Viability of Cultural products for Export
505			_aConclusion
505			_aEpilogue
505			_aAppendices
505			_aReferences
505			_aSubject Index
520	2		_a"The Arab Mind is intended neither as a recipe for resolving the protracted conflict between the West and the Arab-Islamic world nor as a plea for tolerance and peace: It is primarily an attempt at something more fundamental – understanding. Abdennur argues that the clash of Western and Arab cultures is rooted not only in conflicting positions that each culture has taken on moral, religious, territorial, and political issues but also in the different styles of thinking that underlie such issues. Abdennur’s analysis of the literature on Arab thinking and his own original empirical research provides evidence that the predominant characteristic of the Arab mind is a rational epistemic style. Arab thinking is characterized by a fundamental and overriding drive for abstraction and ideology combined with strong affect, radicalism, two-dimensionality, isolation, awareness of the rights of society, and a need to integrate ultimate values with political administration. It is also argued that the Arab epistemic orientation has educational, communicational, and intellectual perspectives that could present a critical challenge to the current Western culture. The Author argues that a state of decline may occur if Arabs lose touch with abstract thinking and identifies three conditions that may catalyze a retreat into self-centred utilitarianism, compromise, and demoralization." (Book Cover)
650	1	7	_aArabs _xPsychology.
650		7	_aIdentity (Psychology) _xArab countries.
650		7	_aIdentité (Psychologie)
650		6	_aArabes _xPsychologie.
650		6	_aIdentité (Psychologie) _zÉtats arabes.
651		7	_aPays arabes.
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