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  • Noncoercive Threats to Academic, Political, and Economic Freedom

    Edited by Akeel Bilgrami, Jonathan R. Cole ...
    States and institutions in both conventionally authoritarian and formally democratic societies overtly circumscribe freedom in any number of ways. Yet there are also subtler forms by which authorities and cultural forces compromise the choices of individuals in ways that do not seem, at first glance, to be coercive. This book brings together a distinguished set of scholars to examine covert ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Marx, Gandhi and Modernity

    Essays presented to Javed Alam

    Edited by Akeel Bilgrami ...
    As a tribute to Javeed Alam and his exemplary life, some of his close friends and admirers have cometogether in this volume with reflections on the range of themes that he pursued in his work withsuch intelligence and relish for some four decades: the nature of capitalism and the various angles ofa Marxist response to it, the nature of secularism and liberalism and the forms of modernity whichthey ... Read more

    $11.95 USD

  • Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment

    by Akeel Bilgrami ...
    Series series Convergences: Inventories of the Present
    Bringing clarity to a subject clouded by polemic, Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment is a rigorous exploration of how secularism and identity emerged as concepts in different parts of the modern world. At a time when secularist and religious worldviews appear irreconcilable, Akeel Bilgrami strikes out on a path distinctly his own, criticizing secularist proponents and detractors, liberal ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Self-Knowledge and Resentment

    by Akeel Bilgrami ...
    In Self-Knowledge and Resentment, Akeel Bilgrami argues that self-knowledge of our intentional states is special among all the knowledges we have because it is not an epistemological notion in the standard sense of that term, but instead is a fallout of the radically normative nature of thought and agency.Four themes or questions are brought together into an integrated philosophical position: What ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Who's Afraid of Academic Freedom?

    Edited by Akeel Bilgrami, Jonathan R. Cole ...
    In these seventeen essays, distinguished senior scholars discuss the conceptual issues surrounding the idea of freedom of inquiry and scrutinize a variety of obstacles to such inquiry that they have encountered in their personal and professional experience. Their discussion of threats to freedom traverses a wide disciplinary and institutional, political and economic range covering specific ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Political Concepts

    A Critical Lexicon

    by J. M. Bernstein, Ann Laura Stoler, Ann Laura Stoler, Stathis Gourgouris, Gil Anidjar, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Étienne Balibar, Joan Copjec, Jacques Lezra, Andreas Kalyvas0, Jean L. Cohen1, Akeel Bilgrami2, Adi M. Ophir3 ...
    Series series Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
    Deciding what is and what is not political is a fraught, perhaps intractably opaque matter. Just who decides the question; on what grounds; to what ends—these seem like properly political questions themselves. Deciding what is political and what is not can serve to contain and restrain struggles, make existing power relations at once self-evident and opaque, and blur the possibility of reimagining ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Democratic Culture

    Historical and Philosophical Essays

    Edited by Akeel Bilgrami ...
    Series series Critical Interventions in Theory and Praxis
    A collection of essays by distinguished scholars, this book delineates a substantial conception of democracy, the great promise as well as the pitfalls of a democratic mentality and culture. These essays go beyond the institutional and formal descriptions of democracy to its underlying cultural context — expressed both historically and analytically, descriptively and normatively. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Truth and the Past

    by Michael Dummett ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy
    Michael Dummett's three John Dewey Lectures—"The Concept of Truth," "Statements About the Past," and "The Metaphysics of Time"—were delivered at Columbia University in the spring of 2002. Revised and expanded, the lectures are presented here along with two new essays by Dummett, "Truth: Deniers and Defenders" and "The Indispensability of the Concept of Truth."In Truth and the Past, Dummett ... Read more

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  • Nature and Value

    by David Bromwich, Bina Gogineni, Nikolas Kompridis, Anthony Laden, Kyle Nichols, Joanna Picciotto, Robert Pollin, Jedediah Purdy, Sanjay Reddy, Carol Rovane, Jonathan Schell, James Hamilton Tully, Jan Zalasiewicz ...
    Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its wider ethical and political implications.A distinguished list of scholars ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Nature and Value

    by David Bromwich, Bina Gogineni, Nikolas Kompridis, Anthony Laden, Kyle Nichols, Joanna Picciotto, Robert Pollin, Jedediah Purdy, Sanjay Reddy, Carol Rovane, Jonathan Schell, James Hamilton Tully, Jan Zalasiewicz ...
    Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed and rigorous multidisciplinary exploration of the concept of nature and its wider ethical and political implications.A distinguished list of scholars ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Beyond the Secular West

    Edited by Akeel Bilgrami ...
    Series Book 23 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    What is the character of secularism in countries that were not pervaded by Christianity, such as China, India, and the nations of the Middle East? To what extent is the secular an imposition of colonial rule? How does secularism comport with local religious cultures in Africa, and how does it work with local forms of power and governance in Latin America? Has modern secularism evolved organically, ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • Provincializing Europe

    Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition

    by Dipesh Chakrabarty ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, is built into the social sciences. The very idea of historicizing carries with it some peculiarly ... Read more

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