Conflicting Humanities

✍ Scribed by Rosi Braidotti; Paul Gilroy (editors)

• 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 problematise 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 - considers 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 antiracist perspectives as well as by detailed analysis of the necropolitical governmentality of our time.
An innovative piece of scholarship committed to the refusal of a world riven by new kinds of warcraft, injustice and exploitation.

✦ Table of Contents

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Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Introduction Rosi Braidotti and Paul Gilroy
1 The Contested Posthumanities Rosi Braidotti
2 A Borderless World? Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
3 Borderless Worlds? Ankhi Mukherjee
4 Humanities and Emancipation: Said’s Politics of Critique between Interpretation and Interference Jamila M. H. Mascat
5 Not Yet Humanism or the Non-Jewish Jew Becomes the Non-Humanistic Humanist Paul Gilroy
6 The Political Enlightenment: A View from the South Akeel Bilgrami
7 ‘We Belong to Palestine Still’: Edward Said and the Challenge of Representation Robert J. C. Young
8 ‘Where Am I Supposed To Go Now?’ Ariella Azoulay
9 The Missing Homeland of Edward Said Aamir R. Mufti
10 Versions of Binationalism in Said and Buber Judith Butler
11 Further Reflections on Exile: War and Translation Étienne Balibar
12 We, the Non-Europeans Engin F. Isin
13 Musical Dis-Possessions Stathis Gourgouris
14 In the Time of Not Yet: On the Imaginary of Edward Said Marina Warner
Index