Unsettling the World
Edward Said and Political Theory- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2022
Summary
Unsettling the World is the first book-length treatment of Edward Said’s influential cultural criticism from the perspective of a political theorist. Arguing that the generative power of Said’s thought extends well beyond Orientalism, the book explores Said’s writings on the experience of exile, the practice of “contrapuntal” criticism, and the illuminating potential of worldly humanism. Said’s critical vision, Morefield argues, provides a fresh perspective on debates in political theory about subjectivity, global justice, identity, and the history of political thought. Most importantly, she maintains, Said’s approach offers theorists a model of how to bring the insights developed through historical analyses of imperialism and anti-colonialism to bear on critiques of contemporary global crises and the politics of American foreign policy.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2022
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-4422-6028-3
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-4422-6030-6
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 286
- Product type
- Book Titles
Table of contents
- Dedication No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Contents No access
- Series Editor’s Introduction No access
- Prelude No access
- Introduction No access
- Writing at a Distance No access Pages 1 - 24
- A Cluster of Flowing Currents No access Pages 25 - 54
- Into the Language of Music No access Pages 55 - 86
- Bridge No access Pages 87 - 92
- Reading You in Your Presence No access Pages 93 - 132
- The Honeypots of Our Minds No access Pages 133 - 164
- The Treason of the Intellectuals No access Pages 165 - 204
- Coda No access Pages 205 - 206
- Notes No access Pages 207 - 260
- Index No access Pages 261 - 284
- About the Author No access Pages 285 - 286





