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An Eminent Victorian: Gandhi, Hind Swaraj and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy in the Nineteenth Century
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History of the Present (2017) 7 (1): 33–58.
Published: 01 April 2017
... as a disaffected liberal who rejected Enlightenment categories of reason, state, progress, and history, and ap propriates him as a postcolonial contemporary whose thought sits easily with our distemper regarding modernity, liberalism, and its mode of gov ernmentality.11 Surely we must have options other than...
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Introduction: From Archives of Slavery to Liberated Futures?
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History of the Present (2016) 6 (2): 105–116.
Published: 01 October 2016
...Brian Connolly; Marisa Fuentes Introduction: From Archives of Slavery to Liberated Futures? Brian Connolly and Marisa Fuentes Put differently, how does one rewrite the chronicle ofa death foretold and anticipated, as a collective biography ofdead subjects, as a counter history ofthe human...
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Liberalism’s Incestuous Subject: Private and Public Sex in the Nineteenth-Century United States
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 31–58.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Brian Connolly Copyright © 2011 University of Illinois Press 2011 Liberalism's Incestuous Subject: Private and Public Sex: in the Nineteenth-Century United States Brian Connolly Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century and reaching its apex in the mid nineteenth century, a discourse...
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Published: 01 April 2023
Figure 1. The Sonic Liberation Front. Hosted by Ernesto Chahoud and Yousef Anastas; artwork by Semaan Khawam. Courtesy of Radio Alhara (an artist initiative and communal media platform launched from Bethlehem, Palestine).
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The Symptomatic Self in the Age of Tolerance: The Problem of Anne Frank’s Not Being Herself
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 281–304.
Published: 01 October 2020
... “be themselves.” The notion of “being yourself” is scrutinized and placed in a late modern, liberal production of depoliticized identities. Instead the study suggests that using tolerance as a solution to the present problems of racism, hate, and the rise of fascism will prove counterproductive. What is needed...
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Islam Out of History: Three Genealogies
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History of the Present (2021) 11 (2): 253–278.
Published: 01 October 2021
... and exemplars through the prism of liberalism and toleration. These three moves take Islam out of history. The dislocation of Islam winds through three disciplinary moments that track political theory’s investments in philology, teleology, and philosophy. The article concludes by pointing toward critical...
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Left Freudians: The Psychoanalytic Politics of Disobedience
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (1): 127–142.
Published: 01 April 2022
...,” psychoanalytic thinkers who broke with Freud’s old-style liberalism. Freud was neither a communist nor a political radical, but he was the figurehead of a tradition of inquiry and body of knowledge that lent itself to radical political thought and practice. How does psychoanalytic thinking justify...
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Crossing Black Waters: Indian Ocean Studies, Third Worldism, and the Ontological Turn
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History of the Present (2022) 12 (2): 283–297.
Published: 01 October 2022
... more attention. It also explores the Afro-Asian antinomies of Indian Ocean studies as a reflection of broader critical ambivalences about questions of colonial humanism and anticolonial liberation. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Indian Ocean...
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The Future behind the Mountains and the Sand Dunes: Abdallah Laroui’s Prescriptions for a Recovered Moroccan Modernity
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History of the Present (2024) 14 (2): 274–296.
Published: 01 October 2024
... in the 1970s. It puts Laroui in dialogue with other intellectual voices of this time to illustrate the originality of his call for the public role of historians of decolonization. The article also discusses Laroui’s political withdrawal in the next decade and his shift from Marxism to liberal state reformism...
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Thomas Müntzer, in Latin America
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History of the Present (2025) 15 (1): 72–92.
Published: 01 April 2025
... allows a direct line to be drawn from Müntzer to both liberation theology and the peasant rebellion in Chiapas. Copyright © 2025 by Duke University Press 2025 Thomas Müntzer liberation theology Anabaptism German Peasants’ War Latin America To this day, the reception of Thomas Müntzer...
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The Vexed Relationship of Emancipation and Equality
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History of the Present (2012) 2 (2): 148–168.
Published: 01 October 2012
... to slaves or servants, emancipa tion to family members.) Figuratively, the word has been extended to mean liberation from "intellectual, moral, or spiritual fetters:'2 Here the issue is not so much action by an external agency, as it is an internalmatter, a change in consciousness.For the Young Hegelian...
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The Subterranean Life of Repression
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History of the Present (2019) 9 (2): 203–212.
Published: 01 October 2019
... the way we find such phrases as "grand unified theory of unhappiness; "Drive Liberation Front;' "Object Liberation Front;' as well as speculation about whether Marcuse was familiar with sex in a meadow or in a car.Indeed, to borrow from one of these phrases and restate the question of repression...
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Provincializing Fraser’s History: Feminism and Neoliberalism Revisited
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History of the Present (2011) 1 (1): 130–147.
Published: 01 April 2011
... rights discourses unquestioningly preserve the private-public distinction. They are concerned that Nussbaum's liberal theoretical perspective not only contributes to the new regime of capital accumulation, but also reproduces dominant, masculine power relations.10 In addition, the rights-based...
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Empire’s Babel: US Military Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 2013
... relied upon a surprisingly similar as sumption: that the interrogation room itselfcan be a rational space for the production of information. For liberal critics, torture is a behavior that exceeds the rational-and thus, moral-boundsofthe interrogation room. It is an argument that relies upon...
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“We Know Well, but All the Same . . . ”: Factual Truths, Historical Narratives, and the Work of Disavowal
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (2): 245–264.
Published: 01 October 2023
... 26 , 2021 . https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/05/26/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-children.html . Flapan Simha . The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities . London : Croom Helm , 1987 . Freedland Jonathan . “ The Liberal Zionists .” New York Review , August , 14...
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Terms and Conditions
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History of the Present (2013) 3 (2): 205–211.
Published: 01 October 2013
... contract that goes unnamed, unexamined, and unchallenged by John Rawls. She questions the egalitarian reach of a theory of justice rooted in contract and proffers an important feminist cri tique ofliberalism at a moment when the liberal contract was gaining new life in scholarly circles. The problem...
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Openings after the Last Sky: A Pandemic Dispatch from Palestine
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 136–140.
Published: 01 April 2023
... of Palestine Studies 49 , no. 4 ( 2020 ): 36 – 46 . Tatour Lana . “ The ‘Unity Intifada’ and ’48 Palestinians: Between the Liberal and the Decolonial .” Journal of Palestine Studies 50 , no. 4 ( 2021 ): 84 – 89 . I am grateful to the editors of History of the Present...
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History of the Present (2023) 13 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Figure 1. The Sonic Liberation Front. Hosted by Ernesto Chahoud and Yousef Anastas; artwork by Semaan Khawam. Courtesy of Radio Alhara (an artist initiative and communal media platform launched from Bethlehem, Palestine). ...
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Identity: Words and Sequences
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History of the Present (2020) 10 (2): 237–255.
Published: 01 October 2020
... nationalist movements; and the women’s liberation movement. All of these are proper political sequences, which fundamentally changed the political terrain, and they were all saturated by the end of the 1970s. This does not mean their goals were attained or that their content ceased to be meaningful. It means...
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Thomas Müntzer in the Marxist Imagination
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History of the Present (2025) 15 (1): 55–71.
Published: 01 April 2025
... celebrated recorded words may not in fact be his own. 1 This is not to say that Müntzer’s work is mute: he unquestionably presents a radically egalitarian and politically charged alternative to the Lutheran doctrine of two kingdoms and the liberal quiescence that is its inheritance, and his everyman...
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