The New Preachers of Egypt-so named because of their novel preaching styles, which incorporate everything from melodrama to music to self-help-came to prominence on the world's first Islamic television channel on the cusp of the Arab Spring uprisings. They promoted an innovative and inclusive Islamic piety that millions of young middle-class ......
Jewishness and the Politics of Antiracism in Postcolonial Thought
World War II produced a fundamental shift in modern racial discourse. In the postwar period, racism was situated for the first time at the center of international political life, and race's status as conceptual common sense and a justification for colonial rule was challenged with new intensity. In response to this crisis of race, the UN and ......
A Riverine History of Empire Across China, India, and Southeast Asia
Spanning nearly 4 million square kilometers, the Tibetan river system-including the Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, Red, and Yangzi-forms the largest contiguous network of rivers on the planet, stretching across eastern South Asia, mainland Southeast Asia, and southern China. The Range of the River uncovers the entwined histories of these ......
A Riverine History of Empire Across China, India, and Southeast Asia
Spanning nearly 4 million square kilometers, the Tibetan river system-including the Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, Red, and Yangzi-forms the largest contiguous network of rivers on the planet, stretching across eastern South Asia, mainland Southeast Asia, and southern China. The Range of the River uncovers the entwined histories of these ......
As a form of power, subjection is paradoxical. To be dominated by a power external to oneself is a familiar and agonizing form power takes. To find, however, that what one is, one's very formation as a subject, is dependent upon that very power is quite another. If, following Foucault, we understand power as forming the subject as well, it ......
Conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson
One of the most influential historians of ancient philosophy of the past half-century, Pierre Hadot was adept at using ancient philosophers to illuminate the relevance of their ideas to contemporary life. This new edition of The Present Alone is Our Happiness, which has been significantly revised and expanded to include two previously untranslated ......
Neoliberalism has become a dirty word. In political discourse, it stigmatizes a political opponent as a market fundamentalist; in academia, the concept is also mainly wielded by its critics, while those who might be seen as actual neoliberals deny its very existence. Yet the term remains necessary for understanding the varieties of capitalism ......
This highly original interpretation of Paul by the Jewish philosopher of religion Jacob Taubes was presented in a number of lectures held in Heidelberg toward the end of his life, and was regarded by him as his "spiritual testament". Taubes engages with classic Paul commentators, including Karl Barth, but also situates the Pauline text in the ......
China's leader, Xi Jinping, is one of the most powerful individuals in the world-and one of the least understood. Much can be learned, however, about both Xi Jinping and the nature of the party he leads from the memory and legacy of his father, the revolutionary Xi Zhongxun (1913-2002). The elder Xi served the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) for ......
