1. The contested posthumanities / Rosi Braidotti -- 2. A borderless world? / Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak -- 3. Borderless worlds? / Ankhi Mukherjee -- 4. Humanities and emancipation: Said's politics of critique between interpretation and interference / Jamila M.H. Mascat -- 5. Not yet humanism or the non-Jewish Jew becomes the non-humanistic humanist / Paul Gilroy -- 6. The political enlightenment: a view from the South / Akeel Bilgrami -- 7. `We belong to Palestine still': Edward Said and the challenge of representation / Robert J.C. Young -- 8. `Where am I Supposed to go now?' / Ariella Azoulay -- 9. The missing homeland of Edward Said / Aamir R. Mufti -- 10. Versions of binationalism in Said and Buber / Judith Butler -- 11. Further reflections on exile: war and translation / Etienne Balibar -- 12. We, the non-Europeans / Engin F. Isin -- 13. Musical dis-possessions / Stathis Gourgouris -- 14. In the time of not yet: on the imaginary of Edward Said / Marina Warner.
Summary:
How might we reinvent the humanities? This is the question at the heart of this provocative volume. It is a difficult mission and definitely one which needs to be addressed with increasing urgency. There is no better cast to confront and problematise this question than the contributors to Conflicting Humanities. They are world-renowned thinkers who can tackle the problem as researchers and teachers but also as prominent public intellectuals. Taking the intellectual and political legacies of Edward Said as a point of departure and frame of reference, the contributors - working in a range of disciplinary settings - considers the current condition of humanism and the humanities.
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