The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies have released the 58th issue of the quarterly peer-reviewed journal Tabayyun, dedicated to Philosophical Studies and Critical Theory. This issue contains the following studies: “Transformations of Necropolitics: Artificial Intelligence and the Renewal of Practices of Evil", by Mohammed Noureddine Afaya; “Critical Theory Between Gaza and Auschwitz: Critique from the Frontiers of Empire", by Bahaa Eldeen Mohammed Osman; “Rorty's Conception of the Self: From the Essentialist Self to the Liberal Ironist", by Abdelghani Elhidani.
The issue also includes a discussion titled “From the Passion for Freedom to the Logic of Necessity: Hannah Arendt's Affective Dimensions of Revolution" by Noureddine Dinani. It further provides a translation Lewis Ross's “Are Philosophers Absurd? Progress, Testimony and Division of Labour" by Michael Medhat Youssef. Two book reviews are featured: Marwan Mahmoud's review of The Concept of Democracy: An Essay on Conceptual Amelioration and Abandonment by Herman Cappelen; and Sari Hanafi's review of Islamic Doctrines and Political Liberalism: Muslims' Sincere Support by Gozde Hussain. The issue concludes with four overviews of recent publications prepared by the editorial board.
