Manifestos for World Thought
Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh editor Lucian Stone editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield International
Published:13th Dec '17
Should be back in stock very soon
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£119.00(9781783489503)
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