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28 produkter
Criticism and Politics
A Polemical Introduction
Häftad, 2022
297 kr
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An accessible introduction to cultural theory and an original polemic about the purpose of criticism.What is criticism for? Over the past few decades, impassioned disagreements over that question in the academy have burst into the news media. These conflicts have renewed the culture wars over the …
Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World
System, Scale, Culture
Av David Palumbo-Liu, Nirvana Tanoukhi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1263 kr
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In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-systems analysis. The renowned sociologist developed his influential critical framework to explain the historical and …
Servant's Hand
English Fiction from Below
Inbunden, 1986
974 kr
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A work of innovative literary and cultural history, The Servant's Hand examines the representation of servants in nineteenth-century British fiction. Wandering in the margins of these texts that are not about them, servants are visible only as anachronistic appendages to their masters and as …
Upward Mobility and the Common Good
Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State
Inbunden, 2007
1327 kr
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We think we know what upward mobility stories are about--virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished. Either way, these stories seem obviously concerned with the self-making of self-reliant individuals rather than with any collective interest. In Upward …
Upward Mobility and the Common Good
Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State
Häftad, 2010
930 kr
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We think we know what upward mobility stories are about--virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished. Either way, these stories seem obviously concerned with the self-making of self-reliant individuals rather than with any collective interest. In Upward …
Feeling Global
Internationalism in Distress
Inbunden, 1999
1218 kr
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Is global culture merely a pale and sinister reflection of capitalist globalization? Bruce Robbins responds to this and other questions in Feeling Global, a crucial document on nationalism, culturalism, and the role of intellectuals in the age of globalization.Building on his previous work, Robbins …
Feeling Global
Internationalism in Distress
Av Bruce Robbins, Robert Seltzer
Häftad, 1999
384 kr
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Is global culture merely a pale and sinister reflection of capitalist globalization? Bruce Robbins responds to this and other questions in Feeling Global, a crucial document on nationalism, culturalism, and the role of intellectuals in the age of globalization.Building on his previous work, Robbins …
Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World
System, Scale, Culture
Av David Palumbo-Liu, Nirvana Tanoukhi m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
384 kr
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In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-systems analysis. The renowned sociologist developed his influential critical framework to explain the historical and …
Perpetual War
Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence
Häftad, 2012
384 kr
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For two decades Bruce Robbins has been a theorist of and participant in the movement for a "new cosmopolitanism," an appreciation of the varieties of multiple belonging that emerge as peoples and cultures interact. In Perpetual War he takes stock of this movement, rethinking his own commitment and …
Beneficiary
Inbunden, 2017
1420 kr
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From iPhones and clothing to jewelry and food, the products those of us in the developed world consume and enjoy exist only through the labor and suffering of countless others. In his new book Bruce Robbins examines the implications of this dynamic for humanitarianism and social justice. He locates …
Beneficiary
Häftad, 2017
393 kr
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From iPhones and clothing to jewelry and food, the products those of us in the developed world consume and enjoy exist only through the labor and suffering of countless others. In his new book Bruce Robbins examines the implications of this dynamic for humanitarianism and social justice. He locates …
Beneficiary
E-bok, 2017
580 kr
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From iPhones and clothing to jewelry and food, the products those of us in the developed world consume and enjoy exist only through the labor and suffering of countless others. In his new book Bruce Robbins examines the implications of this dynamic for humanitarianism and social justice. He locates …
Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World
System, Scale, Culture
Av Bruce Robbins, Nirvana Tanoukhi m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
655 kr
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In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-systems analysis. The renowned sociologist developed his influential critical framework to explain the historical and …
Perpetual War
Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence
E-bok, 2012
655 kr
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For two decades Bruce Robbins has been a theorist of and participant in the movement for a "new cosmopolitanism," an appreciation of the varieties of multiple belonging that emerge as peoples and cultures interact. In Perpetual War he takes stock of this movement, rethinking his own commitment and …
Upward Mobility and the Common Good
Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State
E-bok, 2009
689 kr
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We think we know what upward mobility stories are about--virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished. Either way, these stories seem obviously concerned with the self-making of self-reliant individuals rather than with any collective interest. In Upward …
Cosmopolitanisms
Av Paulo Lemos Horta, Bruce Robbins m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1158 kr
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An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world. "Where are you from?" The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a "kosmo-polites," or citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism displays two …
Cosmopolitanisms
Av Bruce Robbins, Paulo Lemos Horta
Häftad, 2017
441 kr
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An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world. "Where are you from?" The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a "kosmo-polites," or citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism displays two …
Criticism and Politics
A Polemical Introduction
Inbunden, 2022
1035 kr
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An accessible introduction to cultural theory and an original polemic about the purpose of criticism.What is criticism for? Over the past few decades, impassioned disagreements over that question in the academy have burst into the news media. These conflicts have renewed the culture wars over the …
Criticism and Politics
A Polemical Introduction
E-bok, 2022
351 kr
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An accessible introduction to cultural theory and an original polemic about the purpose of criticism.What is criticism for? Over the past few decades, impassioned disagreements over that question in the academy have burst into the news media. These conflicts have renewed the culture wars over the …
Atrocity
A Literary History
Inbunden, 2025
370 kr
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Exploring literary representations of mass violence, Bruce Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity. Mass violence did not always have a name. Like conquest, what we think of now as atrocities have not always invited indignation or been seen to violate moral norms. …
Atrocity
A Literary History
E-bok, 2025
419 kr
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Exploring literary representations of mass violence, Bruce Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity. Mass violence did not always have a name. Like conquest, what we think of now as atrocities have not always invited indignation or been seen to violate moral norms. …
Why Read Edward Said Now?
Homelessness and Worldliness
Inbunden, 2027
799 kr
Kommande
More than twenty years after Edward Said's passing, what his admirers around the world would probably want most is to hear his voice, his voice raised in public on the subject of the Israeli killing and land-grabbing in Gaza and the West Bank. Not just for the power and articulateness of that …
Why Read Edward Said Now?
Homelessness and Worldliness
Häftad, 2027
249 kr
Kommande
More than twenty years after Edward Said's passing, what his admirers around the world would probably want most is to hear his voice, his voice raised in public on the subject of the Israeli killing and land-grabbing in Gaza and the West Bank. Not just for the power and articulateness of that …
Teaching Politically
Global Perspectives on Pedagogy and Autonomy
Inbunden, 2025
1211 kr
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Culture is inextricable from politics. This includes the politics of who we are, as teachers, intellectuals, writers, cultural workers, and students, and what we want to bring to and take from the site of instruction. It also includes the politics of who we want to be, as citizens, professionals, …
Teaching Politically
Global Perspectives on Pedagogy and Autonomy
Häftad, 2025
322 kr
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Culture is inextricable from politics. This includes the politics of who we are, as teachers, intellectuals, writers, cultural workers, and students, and what we want to bring to and take from the site of instruction. It also includes the politics of who we want to be, as citizens, professionals, …
Who's Allowed to Protest?
Häftad, 2026
162 kr
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WHO’S ALLOWED TO PROTEST? is the essential guide for understanding why some political voices are amplified, others are silenced, and how the fight over “who’s too elite” to dissent will determine our democratic fates. Why do charges of “privilege” haunt every new protest wave? In this electrifying …
Intellectuals
Aesthetics, Politics, Academics
Häftad, 1990
286 kr
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Intellectuals so the arguement goes, are an endangered species. Once at the centre of crucial debates about politics and culture, today they have forsaken their proud and public-spirited independence and retreated to academia where they pursue such esoteric subjects as post-modern aethetics and …
Perpetual War
Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence
Inbunden, 2012
1263 kr
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For two decades Bruce Robbins has been a theorist of and participant in the movement for a "new cosmopolitanism," an appreciation of the varieties of multiple belonging that emerge as peoples and cultures interact. In Perpetual War he takes stock of this movement, rethinking his own commitment and …
