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  • Who's Allowed to Protest?

    de Bruce Robbins ...
    WHO’S ALLOWED TO PROTEST? is the essential guide for understanding why some political voices are amplified, others are silenced, and how the fight over “who’s too elite” to dissent will determine our democratic fates.Why do charges of “privilege” haunt every new protest wave? In this electrifying blend of short history and manifesto, Columbia University professor Bruce Robbins picks apart the ... Leer más

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  • Atrocity

    A Literary History

    de Bruce Robbins ...
    Exploring literary representations of mass violence, Bruce Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity.Mass violence did not always have a name. Like conquest, what we think of now as atrocities have not always invited indignation or been seen to violate moral norms. Venturing from the Bible to Zadie Smith, Robbins explores the literature of suffering, to show how, over ... Leer más

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  • Criticism and Politics

    A Polemical Introduction

    de Bruce Robbins ...
    An accessible introduction to cultural theory and an original polemic about the purpose of criticism.What is criticism for? Over the past few decades, impassioned disagreements over that question in the academy have burst into the news media. These conflicts have renewed the culture wars over the legacy of the 1960s, becoming entangled in national politics and leading to a new set of questions ... Leer más

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  • Feeling Global

    Internationalism in Distress

    de Bruce Robbins ...
    Series series Cultural Front
    Is global culture merely a pale and sinister reflection of capitalist globalization? Bruce Robbins responds to this and other questions in Feeling Global, a crucial document on nationalism, culturalism, and the role of intellectuals in the age of globalization.Building on his previous work, Robbins here takes up the question of the status of international human rights. Robbins' conception of ... Leer más

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  • The Beneficiary

    de Bruce Robbins ...
    From iPhones and clothing to jewelry and food, the products those of us in the developed world consume and enjoy exist only through the labor and suffering of countless others. In his new book Bruce Robbins examines the implications of this dynamic for humanitarianism and social justice. He locates the figure of the "beneficiary" in the history of humanitarian thought, which asks the prosperous to ... Leer más

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  • Perpetual War

    Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence

    de Bruce Robbins ...
    For two decades Bruce Robbins has been a theorist of and participant in the movement for a "new cosmopolitanism," an appreciation of the varieties of multiple belonging that emerge as peoples and cultures interact. In Perpetual War he takes stock of this movement, rethinking his own commitment and reflecting on the responsibilities of American intellectuals today. In this era of seemingly endless ... Leer más

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  • Upward Mobility and the Common Good

    Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State

    de Bruce Robbins ...
    We think we know what upward mobility stories are about--virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished. Either way, these stories seem obviously concerned with the self-making of self-reliant individuals rather than with any collective interest. In Upward Mobility and the Common Good, Bruce Robbins completely overturns these assumptions to expose a ... Leer más

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  • Cosmopolitanisms

    An indispensable collection that re-examines what it means to belong in the world."Where are you from?" The word cosmopolitan was first used as a way of evading exactly this question, when Diogenes the Cynic declared himself a "kosmo-polites," or citizen of the world. Cosmopolitanism displays two impulses—on the one hand, a detachment from one's place of origin, while on the other, an assertion of ... Leer más

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  • Teaching Politically

    Global Perspectives on Pedagogy and Autonomy

    Culture is inextricable from politics. This includes the politics of who we are, as teachers, intellectuals, writers, cultural workers, and students, and what we want to bring to and take from the site of instruction. It also includes the politics of who we want to be, as citizens, professionals, and active contributors to our communities and to the world in general, and what we can be, ... Leer más

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  • Thinking with Balibar

    A Lexicon of Conceptual Practice

    Series series Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory
    This volume, the first sustained critical work on the French political philosopher Étienne Balibar, collects essays by sixteen prominent philosophers, psychoanalysts, anthropologists, sociologists, and literary critics who each identify, define, and explore a central concept in Balibar’s thought. The result is a hybrid lexicon-engagement that makes clear the depth and importance of Balibar’s ... Leer más

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  • Les partis politiques canadiens en transition

    Quels rôles exercent les partis politiques aujourd’hui dans l’exercice de la démocratie au Canada ? Comment leurs stratégies et leurs bases électorales ont-elles évolué au fil des décennies ? Et surtout, vers où se dirige notre système partisan à l’ère des bouleversements technologiques et des discours populistes ?Depuis la première édition de Canadian Parties in Transition en 1989, les partis ... Leer más

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  • Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

    A Novel

    de Tom Robbins ...
    A classic tale of eccentric adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of Still Life with Woodpecker“This is one of those special novels—a piece of working magic, warm, funny, and sane.”—Thomas Pynchon“Even Cowgirls Get the Blues comes as a magical gift, a brilliant affirmation of private visions and private wishes and their power to transform life and death.”—The Nation... ... Leer más

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