Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Periodizing Arab Modernities: Toward a Political History of the Present -- Rise of Arab Nationalist Capitalism -- Between State and Private Capitalism -- Decline of Arab State Capitalism -- Contemporary Islamism -- Neo-Liberalism Triumphant -- Conclusion -- Arab Liberalism: Abdallah Laroui and the Politics of the End of History -- An Intellectual Biography -- A Collective Problematic -- The Intellectual Elite and Social Change -- Historical Role of Intellectuals -- Three Kinds of State -- Two Kinds of Marxism -- Dialectics at a Standstill -- Defending Liberal Modernity -- Modernity and the State -- A New Vision of Modernity -- Historicism and History -- Conclusion -- Tradition, Rationality, and Nationalism: Al- Jabri's Critique of the " Arab Mind" -- An Intellectual Biography -- Historical Context -- "Fundamentalist" Approaches to Tradition -- Toward a New Approach to Tradition -- Role of Philosophy in Social Change -- Two Philosophical Traditions -- Privatization, Liberalism, and Socialism -- Globalization as a New Economic System -- Social Justice and Democracy -- The Arab Bourgeoisie, the State, and Alternative Modernity -- Conclusion -- Islamism and Modernity: Abdessalam Yassine and Islamizing Modernity -- An Intellectual Biography -- On the Historical Formation -- What is Modernity? -- Social Change, Politics, and -- Prophetic Method -- Commitment to the Movement -- Toward an Islamist State -- Shura or Democracy? -- On Ethnicity Politics -- On Women and Gender -- Conclusion -- Toward A New Project of Modernity: Marxism and the Arab Left -- Applying Marxist Tools to Moroccan Society and Ideology -- Early Marx and the Project of Radical Democracy -- The Socialist Project -- A New Understanding of Arab Culture -- The Historical Mission of Intellectuals -- A Critique of Capitalist Globalization.

Tasks for the Moroccan/Arab Left -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index.