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Imagining the Future bridges theory, politics and literature. Inspired by Frederic Jameson’s Archaeologies of the Future, it is a fascinatingly diverse response to his proposition that ‘Utopia… now better expresses our relationship to a genuinely political future than any current program of action’ and that Utopia demands a ‘meditation on the impossible’.
Add to cartThis collection critically address the question of modernity in the societies of the Middle East and North Africa, taking as its point of departure the idea that modernity is best understood as a set of tensions negotiated within societies rather than a model ready-made in one part of the world and exported elsewhere.
Add to cartReligion in a Secular Age? seeks to answer a series of pressing questions. What does it mean for the place of religion? Can the revival of religion be a positive and constructive force in relation to overcoming the morbid symptoms of late modernity? To these questions, the different writers of this volume have very different answers, even as they struggle in common with a world in crisis.
Add to cartScholars and Entrepreneurs provides a bold examination of basic debates, and a critical assessment of contemporary developments. This book breaks new ground in insisting that the crisis in universities, rather than being simply a question of institutional change, must be considered as a symptom of our age.
Add to cartFor some readers the theme of settler colonialism may suggest a preoccupation with the past. This collection finds settler colonialism is a practice that relies upon assumptions about other cultures that are alive and well in the most powerful societies in the contemporary world.
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