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  • Atrocity

    A Literary History

    by Bruce Robbins ...
    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. Venturing from the Bible to Zadie Smith, Robbins explores the literature of suffering, to show how, over ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Cosmopolitanisms

    by Bruce Robbins, Paulo Lemos Horta, Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    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 impulses—on the one hand, a detachment from one's place of origin, while on the other, an assertion of ... Read more

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  • Perpetual War

    Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence

    by Bruce Robbins ...
    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 reflecting on the responsibilities of American intellectuals today. In this era of seemingly endless ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Criticism and Politics

    A Polemical Introduction

    by Bruce Robbins ...
    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 legacy of the 1960s, becoming entangled in national politics and leading to a new set of questions ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Who's Allowed to Protest?

    by Bruce Robbins ...
    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 blend of short history and manifesto, Columbia University professor Bruce Robbins picks apart the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Teaching Politically

    Global Perspectives on Pedagogy and Autonomy

    by May Hawas, Bruce Robbins, Dimitris Christopoulos, Dimitri Dimoulis, Khaled Fahmy, Rishi Goyal, Bonnie Honig, Mona Kareem, Benjamin Mangrum0, Nora Parr1, Ahdaf Soueif2, Omid Tofighian3, Elahe Zivardar4 ...
    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, and active contributors to our communities and to the world in general, and what we can be, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Thinking with Balibar

    A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice

    by Ann Laura Stoler, Stathis Gourgouris, Jacques Lezra, Emily Apter, Étienne Balibar, J. M. Bernstein, Judith Butler, Monique David-Ménard0, Hanan Elsayed1, Didier Fassin2, Bernard Harcourt3, Patrice Maniglier4, Warren Montag5, Bruce Robbins6, Gary Wilder7, Adi M. Ophir8 ...
    Series series Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
    This volume, the first sustained critical work on the French political philosopher Étienne Balibar, collects essays by sixteen prominent philosophers, psychoanalysts, anthropologists, sociologists, and literary critics who each identify, define, and explore a central concept in Balibar’s thought. The result is a hybrid lexicon-engagement that makes clear the depth and importance of Balibar’s ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Beneficiary

    by Bruce Robbins ...
    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 the figure of the "beneficiary" in the history of humanitarian thought, which asks the prosperous to ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World

    System, Scale, Culture

    by Richard E. Lee, Franco Moretti ...
    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 continuing exploitation of the rest of the world by the West. World-systems analysis reflects Wallerstein ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Upward Mobility and the Common Good

    Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State

    by Bruce Robbins ...
    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 Mobility and the Common Good, Bruce Robbins completely overturns these assumptions to expose a ... Read more

    $33.89 USD

  • Feeling Global

    Internationalism in Distress

    by Bruce Robbins ...
    Series series Cultural Front
    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 here takes up the question of the status of international human rights. Robbins' conception of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • Ideology

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Freeden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores ... Read more

    $7.99 USD