Issues in Contemporary Thought: Globalization – Civlization Conflict – Return to Ethics – Toleration – Democracy and the Scale of Values – Philosophy and the City

Al-Jabri focuses on an important issue, which is the demand of philosophy to confront the revival of previous concepts, or to reconstruct these concepts after examining and criticizing them, and to critique the urgent concepts that the major contemporary transformations throw into the arena of current political thought, and deal with them by monitoring and analysis in order to reveal the political and economic motives behind them. Modern terms for concepts such as globalization, the clash of civilizations, global empire, and others