Religious Intellectuals, Reform, and the Struggle for Hegemony

Abstract

[E]very contradiction is a con fl ict of value as well as a con fl ict of interest; that inside every “ need ” there is an affect, or “ want ” , on its way to becoming an “ ought ” (and vice versa ); that every class struggle is at the same time a struggle over values. 1 [A]ll political concepts, images, and terms have a polemical meaning. They are focused on a speci fi c con fl ict and are bound to a concrete situation. 2