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Can Non-Europeans Think?

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (346 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781783604210
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Can Non-Europeans Think?DDC classification:
  • 100
LOC classification:
  • CB251 -- .D333 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Cover -- About the Author -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Yes, We Can -- Introduction: Can Europeans Read? -- A Simple Question -- To Read Forward -- Orientalism Then and Now -- Knowledge and Power -- Power Is Power -- The Fierce Urgency of Now -- 1: Can Non-Europeans Think? -- Found in Translation -- 2: The Moment of Myth: Edward Said, 1935-2003 -- The Name that Enables: Remembering Edward Said -- 3: The Middle East Is Changed Forever -- Thinking beyond the US invasion of Iran -- Iran's Democratic Upsurge -- People Power -- Looking in the Wrong Places -- Left is Wrong on Iran -- The Middle East is Changed Forever -- An Epistemic Shift in Iran -- The Crisis of an Islamic Republic -- Obama "Bearing Witness" is Crucial to Iran -- 4: The War between the Civilized Man and the Savage -- Imagining the Arab Spring: A Year Later -- On Syria: Where the Left is Right and the Right is Wrong -- The Spectacle of Democracy in the USA -- The Syrian "Massacre of the Innocents" -- Revolution: The Pursuit of Public Happiness -- To Protect the Revolution, Overcome the False Secular-Islamist Divide -- Wresting Islam from Islamists -- The Arabs and Their Flying Shoes -- Can the Arab Revolutions Survive Syria and Egypt? -- 5: Postcolonial Defiance or Still the Other -- Revolt Spreads against Politics of Despair -- Green and Jasmine Bleeding Together -- Delayed Defiance -- De-racializing Revolutions -- Muslims as Metaphors -- Žižek and Gaddafi: Living in the Old World -- Repairing the Soul of the Empire City -- The Third Intifada Has Already Begun -- Slavoj Žižek and Harum Scarum -- Fifth Column of the Postmodern Kind -- Merci, Monsieur Badiou -- Conclusion: The Continued Regime of Knowledge -- Index -- Back Cover.
Summary: In this challenging and thought-provoking book Dabashi pulls together a unique constellation of historical and theoretical reflections on current affairs to argue that we need to break down the ethnographic gaze that is evident with intellectual thinking in the Arab world.
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Front Cover -- About the Author -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Yes, We Can -- Introduction: Can Europeans Read? -- A Simple Question -- To Read Forward -- Orientalism Then and Now -- Knowledge and Power -- Power Is Power -- The Fierce Urgency of Now -- 1: Can Non-Europeans Think? -- Found in Translation -- 2: The Moment of Myth: Edward Said, 1935-2003 -- The Name that Enables: Remembering Edward Said -- 3: The Middle East Is Changed Forever -- Thinking beyond the US invasion of Iran -- Iran's Democratic Upsurge -- People Power -- Looking in the Wrong Places -- Left is Wrong on Iran -- The Middle East is Changed Forever -- An Epistemic Shift in Iran -- The Crisis of an Islamic Republic -- Obama "Bearing Witness" is Crucial to Iran -- 4: The War between the Civilized Man and the Savage -- Imagining the Arab Spring: A Year Later -- On Syria: Where the Left is Right and the Right is Wrong -- The Spectacle of Democracy in the USA -- The Syrian "Massacre of the Innocents" -- Revolution: The Pursuit of Public Happiness -- To Protect the Revolution, Overcome the False Secular-Islamist Divide -- Wresting Islam from Islamists -- The Arabs and Their Flying Shoes -- Can the Arab Revolutions Survive Syria and Egypt? -- 5: Postcolonial Defiance or Still the Other -- Revolt Spreads against Politics of Despair -- Green and Jasmine Bleeding Together -- Delayed Defiance -- De-racializing Revolutions -- Muslims as Metaphors -- Žižek and Gaddafi: Living in the Old World -- Repairing the Soul of the Empire City -- The Third Intifada Has Already Begun -- Slavoj Žižek and Harum Scarum -- Fifth Column of the Postmodern Kind -- Merci, Monsieur Badiou -- Conclusion: The Continued Regime of Knowledge -- Index -- Back Cover.

In this challenging and thought-provoking book Dabashi pulls together a unique constellation of historical and theoretical reflections on current affairs to argue that we need to break down the ethnographic gaze that is evident with intellectual thinking in the Arab world.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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