[lbo-talk] Khatami's Address at the Washington National Cathedral

Michael Pugliese michael.098762001 at gmail.com
Sat Sep 9 08:28:53 PDT 2006


On 9/9/06, Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote:See, also, Valentine M. Moghadam, "Review Essay: Nativism, Orientalism and the Left," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME) XVII.2, 1997 <http://www.cssaame.ilstu.edu/issues/V17-2/VAL.pdf>.

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DSid find this cite of a Timothy Brennan article from Critical Inquiry. From the cover looks like the issue was devoted to Edward Said. The Illusion of a Future: "Orientalism" as Traveling Theory Critical Inquiry, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Spring, 2000), pp. 558-583. His new book, "Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right, " http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023113/0231137303.HTM

has good blurbs from David Harvey and Susan Buck-Morss, author of a classic on Adorno and, "Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left." To oversimplify Brennan sees postmodernist theory as a reflection of Reaganite reaction.
>...Wars of Position documents how alternative views were chased from
the public stage by strategic acts of censorship, including within supposedly dissident wings of the humanities. He explores how the humanities entered the cultural and political mainstream and settled into an awkward secular religion of the "middle way." In a series of interrelated chapters, Brennan considers narratives of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Clinton impeachment; reexamines Salman Rushdie's pre-fatwa writing to illuminate its radical social leanings; presents a startling new interpretation of Edward Said; looks at the fatal reception of Antonio Gramsci within postcolonial history and criticism; and offers a stinging critique of Hardt and Negri's Empire and the influence of Italian radicalism on contemporary cultural theory. Throughout the work, Brennan also draws on and critiques the ideas and influence of Heidegger, Lyotard, Kristeva, and other influential theorists.

-- Michael Pugliese



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