The cognitive structure of the Colonialist culture: What dialogue of cultures?

Abstract

The Western culture, which invaded the word with goods, printing press, and guns, or through the successive transfer of the industrial revolution and the age of enlightenment and colonialism, dealt with its own identity as the universal identity, which caused the intellectual struggle to turn into ideologies. On the other hand, an intellectual movement against Western culture centered around itself has emerged calling for a return to the foundations of the original Arab culture, but it has not ben devoid of neglecting and excluding the other, which has placed the Arab intellectual, in general, and the Moroccan intellectual, in particular, between the jaws of two cultural powers. What is available to them on the Arab arena now does not go out one of the following options: As for the Moroccans, to start listening to the dialogue, which adopts the principle of “return” for the foundations of a “genuine” Arab culture, without criticism and without questioning, or force them to embrace the currently fading “post-colonial” dialogue, which is not enough. Therefore, we will focus on this second trend