Conflicting Humanities

✍ Scribed by Rosi Braidotti and Paul Gilroy (eds.)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 307
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

“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

✦ Table of Contents

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