Formulating the claim
Arkoun’s modern reading is based on two levels: a theological-metaphysical level, and a critical level.
Explanation
What is meant is that modern reading does not stop at a single level in dealing with text and meaning; rather, it combines a dimension that remains tied to a theological-metaphysical horizon with another dimension that moves toward critique and examination. In this way, the distinction between the two levels remains part of the very method by which reading is constructed.
Its place in the book’s argument
This formulation appears in a context that clarifies the tools of modern reading and their limits, and it helps explain how Arkoun distributes his view of the text between what remains within the metaphysical horizon and what enters the horizon of critique.
What the atom does not say
This formulation does not explain the details of each level separately, nor does it spell out the tools of reading or their final results in this passage.
Brief evidence passage
Arkoun’s modern reading is based on two distinct levels: a theological-metaphysical level and a critical level. It does not merely understand the text within the horizon of faith, but goes beyond it to examination, analysis, and critique. At the same time, it does not entirely negate the theological dimension, but places it alongside the critical dimension. From here, the modernity of this reading is defined by its ability to combine the two levels.
Nearby links
Critique of Islamic Reason Text and History Critique of Reason