Unsettling the World (eBook)

Edward Said and Political Theory

Jeanne Morefield (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
346 Seiten
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4422-6030-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Unsettling the World is the first book-length treatment of Edward Said's influential cultural criticism from the perspective of a political theorist. Arguing that the generative power of Said's thought extends well beyond Orientalism, the book explores Said's writings on the experience of exile, the practice of ';contrapuntal' criticism, and the illuminating potential of worldly humanism. Said's critical vision, Morefield argues, provides a fresh perspective on debates in political theory about subjectivity, global justice, identity, and the history of political thought. Most importantly, she maintains, Said's approach offers theorists a model of how to bring the insights developed through historical analyses of imperialism and anti-colonialism to bear on critiques of contemporary global crises and the politics of American foreign policy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.6.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Modernity and Political Thought
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Postcolonialism
• ISBN-10: 1-4422-6030-0 / 1442260300
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-6030-6 / 9781442260306