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...
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 wh...
In this provocative book, now reissued with a new introduction, Paul Gilroy contends that race-thinking has distorted the finest promises of modern democracy. He compels us to see that fascism was the principal political innovation of the twentieth century - and that its power to seduce did not die in a bunker in Berlin.
Between Camps addresses questions such as:
* Why do we still divide humanity into different identity groups based on skin colour? * Did all the good done by the Civil Rights Movement and the decolonization of the Third World have such little...
In this provocative book, now reissued with a new introduction, Paul Gilroy contends that race-thinking has distorted the finest promises of modern...
Frederick Douglass was a prolific writer and public speaker whose impact on American literature and history has been long studied by historians and literary critics. Yet Douglass's profound influence on Afro-modern and American political thought has often been undervalued. In an effort to fill this gap, this volume illuminates Douglass' genius for analysing and articulating core American ideals.
Frederick Douglass was a prolific writer and public speaker whose impact on American literature and history has been long studied by historians and li...
