... where the problems begin. Despite excellent analysis and scholarship, our picture of where Said is oriented inside the humanities remains insufficient and in many ways inaccurate. This essay aims to address this problem. It hopes to begin to reposition Said intellectually, historically, and, to some...

...Bruce Robbins Duke University Press 2005 Temporizing: Time and Politics in the Humanities and Human Rights Bruce Robbins In her recent book Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emo- tions, Martha Nussbaum offers...

...Anita Starosta This essay asks how translation—considered not merely as an interlinguistic procedure but as a practice inherent in every encounter—might come to inform the emergent paradigm of “global humanities.” Even as post-Eurocentric criticism presumes Europe to have been provincialized...

...Mark Bauerlein 5983 b2 27:1 / sheet 203 of 237 Political Dreams, Economic Woes, and Inquiry in the Humanities Mark Bauerlein What is the goal...

...Anthony Bogues Arguing that the processes of racial slavery and colonialism were “historically catastrophic,” thereby creating the grounds for different sets of questions about the human and the meanings of freedom, this essay maps some of the ways in which these questions have been posed from...

... of the group, Waters sees the individual as a countervailing force. Duke University Press 2009 Confucianism, Humanism, and Human Rights I went to China for the first time in 1996 at the invitation of the French Department at Nanjing University, which was working with the Fondation pour le...

...Wang Ban In understanding rights across cultures, critics tend to view individual or human rights as unique to the West and alien to community-based or authoritarian Eastern cultures. This essay challenges this fetishism of individual rights by tracing social and intellectual movements in the West...

...Emily Apter Duke University Press 2004 Saidian Humanism Emily Apter Of crucial importance to Edward Said throughout his extraordinary career as an exemplary literary comparatist was the problem of humanism. In taking up...

...Jonathan Arac Chang-Rae Lee's Native Speaker (1995) demonstrates the work a novel can do in speaking (up) for the human in the current life of the United States, even though the novel as an institution has become residual, as print literature yields to other media forms. Through his epigraph from...

...Soyica Diggs Colbert “‘When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead’: The Future of the Human in Suzan-Lori Parks’s The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World ” puts thing theory in conversation with theorizations of temporality, claiming that things rupture the subject/object binary by dislocating...

...Daniel T. O'Hara Duke University Press 2003 y 2 / 30:3 / sheet 111 of 252 6943 boundar Neither Gods nor Monsters: An Untimely Critique of the ‘‘Post/Human’’ Imagination...

...Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak 2005 Addressing Human Rights Use and Abuse of Human Rights Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Argument: Responsibility-based cultures are long stagnating and un- prepared for the public sphere...

...Karl Kroeber Duke University Press 2006 Dossier on American Democracy American Democracy, Boomer Humanism, Brotherhood Karl Kroeber My mind, because the minds that I have loved, The sort of beauty I have approved...

...Kim Uchang Duke University Press 2007 Politics and Human Values: Reflections on Democratic Politics in Korea Kim Uchang 1 When originally planning the second conference of the Daesan Foun- dation, the organizers...

...Gloria Davies In engaging with Chinese perceptions of human rights, we must first consider how the human is understood in Chinese. The Confucian idea of the human as synonymous with benevolence is a morally exacting one. Across the centuries, it has found articulation in the enduring demand...

... discarded critical practices that illuminate new directions for constructing alternative futures. The Infinite Rehearsals of the Critique of Religion: Theological Thinking After Humanism Corey D. B. Walker Of course in Heidegger, as in all those...

... by R. A. Judy 2012 Introduction: For Dignity; Tunisia and the Poetry of Emergent Democratic Humanism R. A. Judy Looking at what is happening in Tunisia now, one cannot help but ask how revolutions, or revolts...

...Gary Tomlinson Viewed in broad and deep-historical perspective, human musicking can help us to discern a semiotics reaching far beyond the human sign, clarifying its signifying processes while at the same time delimiting them within the larger realm of information. These categories and distinctions...

...Ayça Çubukçu Abstract This essay offers a close reading of David Graeber's posthumously published magnum opus The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), which he co‐authored with David Wengrow. The essay engages critically with the concepts of “humanity” and “freedom” that The Dawn...

... conceptions of humanity that are appositive to the anthropology of “Man” concomitant with capitalist modernity. boundary 2 47:2 (2020) DOI 10.1215/01903659- 8193257 © 2020 by Duke University Press Restless Flying, A Black Study of Revolutionary Humanism R.A. Judy La condition humaine, les projets de l homme...