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Product Description 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. Review 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 About the Author Rosi Braidotti is Distinguished University Professor and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She was the Founding Professor of Gender Studies in the Humanities at Utrecht (1988-2005) and the first scientific director of the Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies.Paul Gilroy is a historian, writer and cultural theorist and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Race and Racism at UCL (2019). Prior to UCL, he taught at South Bank University, Essex University, Goldsmiths, University of London, Yale University, London School of Economics and King's College London. Gilroy is the 2019 winner of the Holberg Prize. He is known for his influential studies on black cultural expression on both sides of the Atlantic; the cultural history of postcolonial societies; and the sociology of ethnicity, race and racism in Britain.

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Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
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ASIN: 1474237541
Category: Books > Subjects > Science, Nature & Maths
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Release Date: 30 June 2016
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