Revolution and Disenchantment

Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation

Fadi A. Bardawil (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2020
Duke University Press (Verlag)
9781478006169 (ISBN)

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The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In Revolution and Disenchantment Fadi A. Bardawil redescribes for our present how an earlier generation of revolutionaries, the 1960s Arab New Left, addressed this question. Bardawil excavates the long-lost archive of the Marxist organization Socialist Lebanon and its main theorist, Waddah Charara, who articulated answers in their political practice to fundamental issues confronting revolutionaries worldwide: intellectuals as vectors of revolutionary theory; political organizations as mediators of theory and praxis; and nonemancipatory attachments as impediments to revolutionary practice. Drawing on historical and ethnographic methods and moving beyond familiar reception narratives of Marxist thought in the postcolony, Bardawil engages in "fieldwork in theory" that analyzes how theory seduces intellectuals, cultivates sensibilities, and authorizes political practice. Throughout, Bardawil underscores the resonances and tensions between Arab intellectual traditions and Western critical theory and postcolonial theory, deftly placing intellectuals from those traditions into a much-needed conversation.

Fadi A. Bardawil is Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle East Studies at Duke University.

A Note on Transliteration and Translation ix
Prologue xi
Introduction 1
Part I. Time of History
1. O Youth, O Arabs, O Nationalists: Recalling the High Tides of Anticolonial Pan-Arabism 27
2. Dreams of a Dual Birth: Socialist Lebanon's Theoretical Imaginary (1964–1970) 53
3. June 1967 and Its Historiographical Afterlives 82
Part II. Times of the Sociocultural
4. Paradoxes of Emancipation: Revolution and Power in Light of Mao 113
5. Exit Marx/Enter Ibn Khaldun: Wartime Disenchantment and Critique 138
6. Traveling Theory and Political Practice: Orientalism in the Age of the Islamic Revolution 165
Epilogue 187
Acknowledgments 195
Notes 201
Bibliography 241
Index 255

Erscheinungsdatum	15.04.2020
Reihe/Serie	Theory in Forms
Zusatzinfo	4 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	522 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781478006169 / 9781478006169
Zustand	Neuware