Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Rosi Braidotti is a Philosopher and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University as well as director of the Centre for the Humanities in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Paul Gilroy is Professor of English and American Literature at Kings College London, UK.
The great merit of the collection is that it just shows the relationship between the burning issues of today.
Vooys Literary Journal (Bloomsbury Translation)
This collection is a crucial contribution to our understanding of the legacy of Edward Said. It draws together an outstanding list of authors and thinkers who work tirelessly to place Said's writing at the forefront of our contemporary concerns. The essays mobilize the best of Said's thinking and politics to refresh and irrigate the diverse fields of the humanities today. They brilliantly place Said's avowed humanism at the centre of the contested spaces of the post-human and a post-humanities academy, challenging thought and provoking us to action.
Martin McQuillan, Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis, Kingston University, UK
How might we reinvent the humanities? This is the question at the heart of this provocative volume. It is a difficult mission and definitely one which needs to be addressed with increasing urgency. There is no better cast to confront and problematize this question than the contributors to Conflicting Humanities. They are world-renowned thinkers who can tackle the problem as researchers and teachers but also as prominent public intellectuals.
Taking the intellectual and political legacies of Edward Said as a point of departure and frame of reference, the contributors – working in a range of disciplinary settings – consider the current condition of humanism and the humanities. Said's definition of the core task of the Humanities as the pursuit of democratic criticism remains more urgent than ever, though it needs to be supplemented by gender, environmental, and anti-racist perspectives as well as by detailed analysis of the necro-political governmentality of our time.
An innovative piece of scholarship, this volume is committed to the refusal of a world riven by new kinds of warcraft, injustice and exploitation.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Rosi Braidotti and Paul Gilroy
Chapter 1: The Contested Posthumanities
Rosi Braidotti
Chapter 2: A Borderless World?
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Chapter 1: Borderless Worlds?
Ankhi Mukherjee
Chapter 1: Humanities and Emancipation. Said’s Politics of Critique Between Interpretation and Interference
Jamila M. H. Mascat
Chapter 1: Not Yet Humanism or the Non-Jewish Jew Becomes the Non-Humanistic Humanist
Paul Gilroy
The Political Enlightenment: A View from the South
Akeel Bilgrami
“We belong to Palestine still”: Edward Said and the Challenge of Representation
Robert J.C. Young
“Where Am I Supposed to Go Now?”
Ariella Azoulay
The Missing Homeland of Edward Said
Aamir R. Mufti
Versions of Binationalism in Said and Buber
Judith Butler
Further Reflections on Exile: War and Translation
Étienne Balibar
We, the Non-Europeans: Derrida with Said
Engin Isin
Musical Dis-Possessions
Stathis Gourgouris
In the Time of Not Yet: On the Imaginary of Edward Said
Marina Warner
Index
Theory is back! The vitality of critical thinking in the world today is palpable, as is a spirit of insurgency that sustains it. Theoretical practice has exploded with renewed energy in media, society, the arts and the corporate world. New generations of critical ‘studies’ areas have grown alongside the classical radical epistemologies of the 1970s: gender, feminist, queer, race, postcolonial and subaltern studies, cultural studies, film, television and media studies.
This series aims to present cartographic accounts of emerging critical theories and to reflect the vitality and inspirational force of on-going theoretical debates.
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Rosi Braidotti is a Philosopher and Distinguished University Professor at Utrecht University as well as director of the Centre for the Humanities in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Paul Gilroy is Professor of English and American Literature at Kings College London, UK.