... be seen as realistic, as the thought of “a radically historicist thinker.” 21 Along similar lines, Amel appeals to the “objective dialectical movement” that Marx points to in his analysis of the dissolution of Indian social formations by the expansion of capitalism in the hands of British colonialism...

...Nadia Bou Ali Abstract This roundtable revolves around the translation of selections from Amel's book Is the Heart for the East and Reason for the West? On Edward Said's Marx in “Orientalism , ” published in Arabic in 1986. The importance of bringing this Arabic text to an English and global...

...Surti Singh 5. Yet another form of identity-thinking appears in Said's thought, which Amel terms “logical positivism.” Said's thought succumbs to binary logic and an either/or thought structure. This form of identity-thinking appears as an adherence to “I = I” and therefore excludes...

... do find arguments that are worth considering; others, however, call for serious challenges. The first publication of an English translation of parts of Mahdi Amel's work—unfortunately ignored by Western scholarship so far—gives us the opportunity to revisit the encounter between Marxism...

...Ziad Kiblawi 13. It is worth noting that while Amel locates Said within the Foucauldian camp, Amel distinguishes between the two. Reservations notwithstanding, Amel argues that Foucault's “cultural structuralism” does not deny the existence (and the difference) of “orders of knowledge” since...

... journalistic reflections on British rule in India, namely “the question of revolution, and its necessity, as a precondition for humanity's liberation in Asia.” 1 Amel's contention should be reckoned with in any serious confrontation with the presence of Orientalism or Eurocentrism in Marx's own thought...

...Nadia Bou Ali After all, why can't one think and feel at once, without that translating into the impossibility of knowing in a disinterested manner? If there can be no disinterested knowledge, then by what means can we apprehend social conditions and the means to their overcoming? 14 For Amel...

...Mahdi Amel; Ziad Kiblawi 20. Said, Orientalism , 154 ; Marx, “The British Rule in India,” 320 . 21. Said, Orientalism , 154 ; Said, al-Istishrāq , 171 . 22. Said, Orientalism , 155–7 ; Said, al-Istishrāq , 172–73 . 23. I translate “al-jadīd” (the new) as “new...

... sections. The first highlights the work of Lebanese Marxist intellectual Mahdi Amel and in particular his book Is the Heart for the East and Reason for the West? Published in Arabic in 1986, Amel's book critically responds to Edward Said's Orientalism and in particular to Said's reading of Karl Marx...