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Manifestos for World Thought

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh editor Lucian Stone editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield International

Published:13th Dec '17

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What are the still-unknown horizons of world thought? This book brings together prominent scholars from varying disciplines to speculate on this obscure question and the many crossroads that face intellectuals in our contemporary era and its aftermath. The result is a collection of “manifestos” that contemplate a potential global future for thinking itself, venturing across some of the most marginalized sectors of East and West (with particular emphasis on the Middle Eastern and Islamicate) in order to dissect crucial issues of culture, society, philosophy, literature, art, religion, and politics. The book explores themes such as universality, translation, modernity, language, history, identity, resistance, ecology, catastrophe, memory, and the body, offering a groundbreaking alignment of texts and ideas with far-reaching implications for our time and beyond.

A set of elegant manifestos on some of the most pressing issues of our time, each adopting a position unmoored from conventional schools, genealogies and traditions of thought, so as to bring the world itself to light in all its heterogeneous reality. -- Faisal Devji, Reader in Modern South Asian History, University of Oxford

ISBN: 9781783489510

Dimensions: 230mm x 151mm x 19mm

Weight: 395g

266 pages