Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism write by Gilbert Achcar. This book was released on 2013. Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the most important analysts of Middle East political economy explores religion and nationalism in the region in this new collection of essays. Achcar examines key political and sociological dynamics at play in the Middle East, and the Western response thereto.
Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism
Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism write by Gilbert Achcar. This book was released on 2013-08-08. Marxism, Orientalism, Cosmopolitanism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this collection of essays, Gilbert Achcar examines the controversial relationship of Marxism to religion, to Orientalism and its critique by Edward Said, and to the concept of cosmopolitanism. A compelling range of issues is discussed within these pages, including a comparative assessment of Christian liberation theology and Islamic fundamentalism; "Orientalism in reverse", which can take the form of an apology for Islamic fundamentalism; the evolution of Marx's appraisal of non-Western societies; and the vagaries of "cosmopolitanism" up to our present era of globalisation. Erudite and incisive, these essays provide a major contribution to the critical discussion of Marxism, Orientalism and cosmopolitanism, and illuminate the relationships between all three.
Marx and the End of Orientalism (Routledge Revivals)
Marx and the End of Orientalism (Routledge Revivals) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marx and the End of Orientalism (Routledge Revivals) write by Bryan S. Turner. This book was released on 2014-07-11. Marx and the End of Orientalism (Routledge Revivals) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1978, this title analyses a range of problems that arise in the study of North Africa and the Middle East, bridging the gap between studies of Sociology, Islam, and Marxism. Both Sociology and the study of Islam draw on an Orientalist tradition founded on an idealist epistemology, ethnocentric values and an evolutionary view of historical development. Bryan Turner challenges the basic assumptions of Orientalism by considering such issues as the social structure of Islamic society, the impact of capitalism in the Middle East, the effect of Israel on territories, revolutions, social classes and nationalism. A detailed and fascinating study, Marx and the End of Orientalism will be of particular interest to students studying the sociology of colonialism and development, Marxist sociology and sociological theory.
The Arabs and the Holocaust
The Arabs and the Holocaust - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Arabs and the Holocaust write by Gilbert Achcar. This book was released on 2010-04-13. The Arabs and the Holocaust available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An unprecedented and judicious examination of what the Holocaust means—and doesn't mean—in the Arab world, one of the most explosive subjects of our time There is no more inflammatory topic than the Arabs and the Holocaust—the phrase alone can occasion outrage. The terrain is dense with ugly claims and counterclaims: one side is charged with Holocaust denial, the other with exploiting a tragedy while denying the tragedies of others. In this pathbreaking book, political scientist Gilbert Achcar explores these conflicting narratives and considers their role in today's Middle East dispute. He analyzes the various Arab responses to Nazism, from the earliest intimations of the genocide, through the creation of Israel and the destruction of Palestine and up to our own time, critically assessing the political and historical context for these responses. Finally, he challenges distortions of the historical record, while making no concessions to anti-Semitism or Holocaust denial. Valid criticism of the other, Achcar insists, must go hand in hand with criticism of oneself. Drawing on previously unseen sources in multiple languages, Achcar offers a unique mapping of the Arab world, in the process defusing an international propaganda war that has become a major stumbling block in the path of Arab-Western understanding.
The Postcolonial Orient
The Postcolonial Orient - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Postcolonial Orient write by Vasant Kaiwar. This book was released on 2014-05-08. The Postcolonial Orient available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Postcolonial Orient, Vasant Kaiwar presents a far-reaching analysis of the political, economic, and ideological cross-currents that have shaped and informed postcolonial studies preceding and following the 1989 moment of world history. The valences of the ‘post’ in postcolonialism are unfolded via some key historical-political postcolonial texts showing, inter alia, that they are replete with elements of Romantic Orientalism and the Oriental Renaissance. Kaiwar mobilises a critical body of classical and contemporary Marxism to demonstrate that far richer understandings of ‘Europe’ not to mention ‘colonialism’, ‘modernity’ and ‘difference’ are possible than with a postcolonialism captive to phenomenological-existentialism and post-structuralism, concluding that a narrative so enriched is indispensable for a transformative non-Eurocentric internationalism.
