Jadal for Knowledge and Culture invites you to attend a discussion* on “Modernity and the Limits of Democracy” with A. M. Aeshan**.

The dominant political ideology today – democracy – imposes itself as the ultimate solution to the crises of the Arab world. Such imposition, however, comes not only through military violence and economic reconfiguration, where it can be easily critiqued, but also in our everyday life. In this lecture, we will discuss the limits to democracy, engaging its relation to colonialism and capitalism, before asking the question of how pre-modern ways of life can inform us today.

* The discussion will be in English.
**A. M. Aeshan is the director of the Institute for Critical Thought in Amman and a Herchel Smith Fellow at the University of Cambridge. His research resides at the intersection of philosophy, literature, and politics, about which he has lectured internationally.