Fayez Sayegh: The Party Years 1938-1947 by Adel Beshara

Author:Adel Beshara [Beshara, Adel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fayez Sayegh
Publisher: Black House Publishing Ltd
Published: 2019-04-14T04:00:00+00:00

CONCLUSION

In presenting his side of the dispute, Fayez raised some interesting points. He addressed fundamental issues and trends that are unique to collective ideological movements and he was bold and outspoken. Yet, his bluntness, tactlessness, and impatience with others come across clearly. He did not seem to mind what others might think or who might get hurt. This suggests strong idiosyncrasies in personality that are sometimes hard to deal with.

With Fayez, we encounter a bleak exposé that depicts Sa’adeh as an originator of a mystical and religious vision of nationhood in which his person attains a sacred aura: a despot who sought to impose his own world view with complete disregard for others; and of all things, an avowed enemy of Syria:

In the name of Syria’s interest, which Sa’adeh taught me during the first stages of his struggle to work for and sacrifice any other interest for it, I declare Sa’adeh in the last stage a destructive factor and a danger to my Syrian nation!59

Yet, for all his hyperbolic rhetoric, Fayez failed to address the most important issue in the dispute with Sa’adeh: the attachment he harbored for existential philosophy. It is hardly mentioned in Whither To? or rebutted despite the extensive space allocated for philosophy in the tract. This is both disappointing and unhelpful. Existential philosophy was the primary factor that shaped Fayez’s attitude, response and the extremity of that response. His failure to deal with it reflected badly on him. It caused the issue to fester and grow, solidified the suspicion that he was an existentialist propagator, and enabled Sa’adeh to land the final blow with effortless ease. The role of existential philosophy in the Fayez-Sa’adeh encounter is the topic of the next chapter.

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