Moral Vision and Social Critique: Selected Essays of Syed Hussein Alatas

Editor: Azhar Ibrahim Alwee, Mohamed Imran Mohamed Taib, et. al.
Publisher: The Print Lodge
ISBN: 9810591625
Weight: 
Pages: 155pp
Year: 2007
Price: RM39

This book is a collection of essays by the late prominent Malay thinker, sociologist and public intellectual, Prof. Syed Hussein Alatas. Covering a range of issues from the role of intellectuals to colonialism, sociology of religion, politics, education and press freedom, these essays displayed the sharp acumen, cogent diagnoses and moral courage of a thinker who is widely respected and hailed as the ‘father of sociological thought’ in Southeast Asia. This book aims to preserve the legacy of Prof. Alatas through offering his advice and insights that are still relevant to the society’s intelligentsia who are entrusted with bettering the social condition of their time.

Contents

Preface
Mohamed Imran Mohamed Taib

Foreword
Remembering Prof. Syed Hussein Alatas
Dr. Yaacob Ibrahim

INTRODUCTION
Di Dalam Berkekalan Kebaktian
An Intellectual Endeavour Par Excellence: In Memoriam of Professor Syed Hussein Alatas
Azhar Ibrahim Alwee

CHAPTER 1
The Intellectuals

CHAPTER 2
Some Fundamental Problems of Colonialism

CHAPTER 3
The Prerequisites of Asian Political Philosophy

CHAPTER 4
National Integration

CHAPTER 5
Elements of Islamic Culture

CHAPTER 6
The Regeneration of Islamic Society

CHAPTER 7
A Method of Studying Islam

CHAPTER 8
The Meaning of Progress in Contemporary Education

CHAPTER 9
Education and the Captive Mind

CHAPTER 10
The Moral and Intellectual Foundation of Press Freedom

Epilogue
The Beginning of an End:
Curriculum of Progress and Education of the Intelligentsia
Muhamad Zaki Jalil