Author: Mahmoud Darwish File Type: pdf One of the Arab worlds greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the war-ravaged streets of Beirut on August 6th (Hiroshima Day). Memory for Forgetfulness is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)? In raising these questions, Darwish implicitly connects writing, homeland, meaning, and resistance in an ironic, condensed work that combines wit with rage. Ibrahim Muhawis translation beautifully renders Darwishs testament to the heroism of a people under siege, and to Palestinian creativity and continuity. Sinan Antoons foreword, written expressly for this edition, sets Darwishs work in the context of changes in the Middle East in the past thirty years.** One of the Arab worlds greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores the war-ravaged streets of Beirut on August 6th (Hiroshima Day).Memory for Forgetfulness is an extended reflection on the invasion and its political and historical dimensions. It is also a journey into personal and collective memory. What is the meaning of exile? What is the role of the writer in time of war? What is the relationship of writing (memory) to history (forgetfulness)? In raising these questions, Darwish implicitly connects writing, homeland, meaning, and resistance in an ironic, condensed work that combines wit with rage.Ibrahim Muhawis translation beautifully renders Darwishs testament to the heroism of a people under siege, and to Palestinian creativity and continuity. Sinan Antoons foreword, written expressly for this edition, sets Darwishs work in the context of changes in the Middle East in the past thirty years.

Author: Martin Jay File Type: pdf ReviewFew in the humanities can rival Jays omnivorousness or match his intellectual energy. - Terry Eagleton, London Review of Books Songs of Experience is at once modest and extraordinarily ambitious. The erudition on display in this sweeping account of a central concept in Western philosophy over several hundred years is a wonder the writing is clear, and the scholarship breathtaking. But it is modest in the sense that it does not announce its own point of view with any emphasis. Instead, the reader benefits from the authors openness to thinkers as unalike as Schleiermacher and Rorty, Oakeshott and Bataille. Jay makes sense of each thinker on his own terms - and thats because with his intellectual openness and his conceptual mediation, Jay indeed practices what he is so lightly preaching. An intellectual historian at the top of his game, he has shared his own experience of these ideas, texts, and writers. After reading this book, we can too. - Michael Roth, Bookforum A magisterial study of one of the most elusive, contested, and pervasively important concepts of the Western philosophical tradition. - Richard Shusterman, author of Pragmatist Aesthetics From the Inside FlapMartin Jay is one of the most influential intellectual historians in contemporary America, and here he shows once again a willingness to tackle the big issues in the Western cultural tradition. . .. A remarkable history of ideas about the nature of human experience.--Lloyd Kramer, author of Threshold of a New World A magisterial study of one of the most elusive, contested, and pervasively important concepts of the Western philosophical tradition. Ranging from epistemology and aesthetics to the philosophy of history, religion, and politics, Songs of Experience brilliantly traces the major lines of theory and debate. Insightful, rich, and masterfully narrated, Jays book sings with that well-tempered voice of erudition, synthetic intelligence, and generous grace that has become his enviable trademark.--Richard Shusterman, author of Pragmatist AestheticsThis illuminating, provocative volume consolidates Martin Jays standing as our leading modern intellectual historian. Ranging sure-footedly from ancient to postmodern discourse, Jay offers finely balanced readings of thinkers who have wrestled with the elusive concept of experience. Because Jay respects--and presents so clearly and sympathetically--positions different from his own, Songs of Experience gives readers the resources necessary to embrace or resist his own bold interpretations of philosophers from Kant and Burke through Dilthey and Dewey to Foucault and Rorty. This book will prove as indispensable to intellectual historians as the idea of experience itself.--James T. Kloppenberg, author of The Virtues of Liberalism

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Author: Frank Peter File Type: pdf Culture is a constant reference in debates surrounding Islam in Europe. Yet the notion of culture is commonly restricted to conceptual frames of multiculturalism where it relates to group identities, collective ways of life and recognition. This volume extends such analysis of culture by approaching it as semiotic practice which conjoins the making of subjects with the configuration of the social. Examining fields such as memory, literature, film, and Islamic art, the studies in this volume explore culture as another element in the assemblage of rationalities governing European Islam. From this perspective, the transformations of European identities can be understood as a matter of cultural practice and politics, which extend the analytical frames of political philosophy, historical legacies, normative orders and social dynamics.