Timothy Brennan is professor of comparative literature, cultural studies, and English at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now and Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation.

A rich and erudite account of recent struggles among Euro-American intellectuals concerning cultural theory... Highly recommended. Choice Brennan's vigorously interrogative style dramatizes an unsettling yet productive skepticism, a sobering homeopathic injection into the current euphoria about the possibilities of globalization. American Book Review An important book. Interventions Throughout Wars of Position, Brennan exhibits a remarkable knowledge of theoretical and historical traditions, and an ability to move across them with deftness,fluently summarizing deeply complex arguments. -- Joseph Keith Postmodern Culture

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Cultures of Belief Part 1. Belief and Its Discontents 1. The Barbaric Left 2. Nativism 3. Humanism, Philology, and Imperialism 4. Globalization's Unlikely Champions Part 2. The Anarchist Sublime 5. The Organizational Imaginary 6. The Empire's New Clothes 7. Cosmo-Theory 8. The Southern Intellectual Notes Index

Timothy Brennan is professor of comparative literature, cultural studies, and English at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now and Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation.

A rich and erudite account of recent struggles among Euro-American intellectuals concerning cultural theory... Highly recommended. Choice Brennan's vigorously interrogative style dramatizes an unsettling yet productive skepticism, a sobering homeopathic injection into the current euphoria about the possibilities of globalization. American Book Review An important book. Interventions Throughout Wars of Position, Brennan exhibits a remarkable knowledge of theoretical and historical traditions, and an ability to move across them with deftness,fluently summarizing deeply complex arguments. -- Joseph Keith Postmodern Culture

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Cultures of Belief Part 1. Belief and Its Discontents 1. The Barbaric Left 2. Nativism 3. Humanism, Philology, and Imperialism 4. Globalization's Unlikely Champions Part 2. The Anarchist Sublime 5. The Organizational Imaginary 6. The Empire's New Clothes 7. Cosmo-Theory 8. The Southern Intellectual Notes Index

Timothy Brennan is professor of comparative literature, cultural studies, and English at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now and Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation.

A rich and erudite account of recent struggles among Euro-American intellectuals concerning cultural theory... Highly recommended. Choice Brennan's vigorously interrogative style dramatizes an unsettling yet productive skepticism, a sobering homeopathic injection into the current euphoria about the possibilities of globalization. American Book Review An important book. Interventions Throughout Wars of Position, Brennan exhibits a remarkable knowledge of theoretical and historical traditions, and an ability to move across them with deftness,fluently summarizing deeply complex arguments. -- Joseph Keith Postmodern Culture

• Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Cultures of Belief Part 1. Belief and Its Discontents 1. The Barbaric Left 2. Nativism 3. Humanism, Philology, and Imperialism 4. Globalization's Unlikely Champions Part 2. The Anarchist Sublime 5. The Organizational Imaginary 6. The Empire's New Clothes 7. Cosmo-Theory 8. The Southern Intellectual Notes Index