The failed asabiyya and cultural suicide in Michel Houellebecq's submission [extended abstract]
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2021
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Since 1994, contemporary French novelist Michel Houellebecq has been offering projections for the future where the European culture and way of life come to an end. The aim of this article is to analyze his 2015 novel Submission using concepts developed by Ibn Khaldun and to show what kind of a political project Houellebecq’s novel serves. Europe, or the Occident as Houellebecq likes to put it, as described in his novels is always being threatened by barbarians at the gates, and these barbarians almost always come from the Mediterranean. With refugee crises, Europe has indeed become wary of Mediterranean passages, and Houellebecq describes how the sea has become an uncontrollable border. Houellebecq’s novels always invite us to question the borders of the Mediterranean. This article studies the novels of a French author who claims the Greeks and the Romans as his heritage through the work of Ibn Khaldun, another author of Mediterranean heritage this time from Andalusia. In this sense, studying Houellebecq with Ibn Khaldun contributes to the discipline of provincializing Europe.
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Extended Abstract
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Michel Houellebecq, Mediterranean, Ibn Khaldun
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İnsan & Toplum - The Journal of Humanity & Society
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Q4
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11
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Haliloğlu, N. (2021). The failed asabiyya and cultural suicide in Michel Houellebecq's submission [extended abstract]. İnsan & Toplum - The Journal of Humanity & Society, 11(1), 125-131.
