The 52nd issue of Tabayyun has been published by The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies and the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. This edition opens with Mohammad Othman Mahmoud’s study, “State and Arab State in Bishara’s Project of Democracy: Political-Philosophical Approaches”. It also includes “Legal Positivism and the Problem of Separation and Connection between Law and Morality” by Mounir Kchaou; “On the Feminization of Ethics: Care Versus Justice,” by Imed Jmei; “The Nomadic Concept and Interdisciplinary Approach: The Concept of ‘Fetishism’ as a Model”, by Khomsi Dridi and “The Relationship between Morality and Law in Kant's Philosophy”, by Mahmoud Sayed Ahmed. 

The issue also includes a translation of Richard Rorty’s essay “Human Rights, Rationality and Sentimentality,” by Mohamed Djedidi, reviewed by Michael Medhat Youssef. In the book review section, Djella Smaine reviews Philosophies of Multiculturalism by Paul May; Zouheir Soukah reviews Identity and Collective Memory: Reproducing Pre-Islamic Arabic Literature by Abdul-Sattar Jabur; and Zoubeida Mounya Benmissi reviews Biopolitics from the Perspective of Social Philosophy by Zwawi Beghoura. The issue concludes with four previews of new publications, prepared by the editorial board.