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The first comprehensive social and intellectual biography of Jalal Al-e Ahmad This book explores the life and legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923-69) - arguably the most prominent Iranian public intellectual of his time - and contends that he was the last Muslim intellectual to have articulated a vision of Muslim worldly cosmopolitanism, before the militant Islamism of the last half a century degenerated into sectarian politics and intellectual alienation from the world at large. Hamid Dabashi places Al-e Ahmad beside other towering critical thinkers of his time, showing how he personified a state of Muslim anticolonial modernity that has now disappeared behind the smokescreen of sectarian politics. This unprecedented engagement with Al-e Ahmad's life and legacy is a prelude to what Dabashi calls a 'post-Islamist Liberation Theology'. The Last Muslim Intellectual is about expanding the wide spectrum of anticolonial thinking beyond its established canonicity and adding a critical Muslim thinker to it - an urgent task, if the future of Muslim critical thinking is to be considered in liberated terms beyond the dead-end of its current sectarian predicament. Key Features - A full social and intellectual biography of Jalal Al-e Ahmad, a seminal Muslim public intellectual of the mid-20th century - Places Al-e Ahmad's writing and activities alongside other influential anticolonial thinkers of his time, including Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire and Edward Said - Chapters cover Jalal Al-e Ahmad's intellectual and political life; his relationship with his wife, the novelist Simin Daneshvar; his essays; his fiction; his travel writing; his translations; and his legacy

'This study represents a surprisingly yet unwritten history of atheism focusing on the point of view of atheists themselves - a fresh and much needed take that moves beyond narratives written by adversaries of atheism. By examining four key thinkers of the French Enlightenment, Devellenes' outstanding book offers a nuanced and contextualised view of atheism that is carefully attuned to politics.' Rosario López, Assistant Professor, University of Málaga An examination of the positive nature of atheism as a political philosophy Charles Devellennes looks at the first four thinkers of the French Enlightenment to explicitly argue for atheism as a positive philosophy. He explores the religious, social and political thought of Pierre Bayle, Jean Meslier, Paul-Henri Thiry d'Holbach and Denis Diderot and in doing so adds new dimensions to our understanding of their contribution to the history of ideas. Atheism is seen to have evolved considerably over the century that spans the works of these four authors. Starting with the possibility of the virtuous atheist in the late seventeenth century, atheism metamorphoses to encompass a deeply rooted materialist philosophy with radical social and political consequences by the eve of the French revolution. The metamorphosis of atheism from a purely negative phenomenon to one that became self-aware is shown to have profound consequences for the establishment of an ethics without God, as well as for the rise of republicanism as a political philosophy. Culminating in the work of Diderot, atheism became increasingly critical of its own position, and by the late eighteenth century had already proposed to move past its positive formulation into a form of metatheism. Diderot, who sees atheism as both a critical tool to assess religious, social and political institutions and as an object of his own critique, foreshadows the rise of a post-Enlightenment conception of atheism. Charles Devellennes is a Senior Lecturer in Political and Social Thought at the University of Kent Cover image: Enlightenment Thinkers (c) akg-images / Science Source Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN Barcode

Explores the relationship between cinema and the cities of Western China.

This book, the first English language study of her films and career, Iranian director Rakhshan Banietemad contains chapters by some of the most prominent scholars of Iranian cinema, as well as younger scholars with fresh points of view.

A systematic study of the most iconic national character in the US in nineteenth-century literature and culture

Examines the place of media technology in the literary and intellectual history of Romantic-era Britain Godwin and the Book explores a network of controversies concerning the relationship of media form to social futurity in Britain in the Romantic era through the writing of the notorious philosopher-novelist William Godwin (1756-1836). It presents a fresh reading of Godwin's fifty-year corpus, using evidence from his fiction, philosophy and essays to argue that, throughout his career, he figured books and reading in particular ways in order to defend a set of inherited beliefs about intellectual perfectibility. It highlights many wider debates that marked out the culture of this period - including disagreements over the physiology of the mind, the ethics of novel-reading and the social consequences of death - and considers how these debates were intertwined with the formal development of contemporary British prose. J. Louise McCray is a writer and critic whose research focuses on media, fiction and intellectual history.

An edited collection of interdisciplinary essays on the work of Elizabeth Robins Pennell, American-born, London-based journalist, author, and aesthete who published (or co-published) over twenty books and a thousand periodical articles between the early 1880s and 1930.

Examines one of the most controversial poetic forms in Arabic: the Arabic prose poem When the modernist movement in Arabic poetry was launched in the 1940s, it threatened to blur the distinctions between poetry and everything else. The Arabic prose poem is probably the most subversive and extreme manifestation of this blurring, often described as an oxymoron, a non-genre, an anti-genre, a miracle and even a conspiracy. This 'new genre' is here explored as a poetic practice and as a critical lens which gave rise to a profound, contentious and continuing debate about the definition of an Arabic poem, its limits, and its relation to its readers. Huda Fakhreddine examines the history of the prose poem, its claims of autonomy and distance from its socio-political context, and the anxiety and scandal it generated. Key Features  Examines the 'new genre' of the prose poem as a poetic practice and as a critical lens  Adopts a case-study approach to a number of poets, including: Adonis, Muhammad al-Maghut, Salim Barakat, Mahmoud Darwish and Wadi Saʿadeh  Adopts a comparative approach which operates across time periods and genres, racial identity and cultural traditions Huda J. Fakhreddine is Associate Professor of Arabic literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Metapoesis in the Arabic Tradition: From Modernists to Muhdathun (2015).

Explores how modern Turkish theologians have grappled with issues such as nationalism and democracy; conceptions of God and humanity; the definition of religion itself and theological arguments for secularism; and theologies of human rights, gender and sexuality.

The Auditory Setting introduces and investigates how narrative and a sense of place are constructed in film and media arts through the reproduction and mediation of site-specific environmental sounds, or 'ambience'.

While legal technology may bring efficiency and economy to business, where are the people in this process and what does it mean for their lives? Around five billion people globally are unable to address their everyday legal problems and do not have the security, opportunity or protection to redress their grievances and injustices. Courts and legal institutions can often be out of reach because of costs, distance, or a lack of knowledge of rights and entitlements and judicial institutions may be under-funded leading to poor judicial infrastructure, inadequate staff, and limited resources to meet the needs of those who require such services. This book sets out to embed access to justice into mainstream discussions on the future of law and to explore how this can be addressed in different parts of the legal industry. It examines what changes in technology mean for the end user, whether an ordinary citizen, a client or a student; and looks at the everyday practice of law through a sector-wide analysis of law firms, universities, startups and civil society organizations. In doing so, the book provides a roadmap on how to address sector-specific access to justice questions and to draw lessons for the future. The book draws on experiences from judges, academics, practitioners, policy makers and educators and presents perspectives from both the Global South and the Global North. Key features: - Brings together leading judges, academics, practitioners, policy makers and educators from several countries, including India, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom South Africa and Nigeria - Offers a dialogue between theory and practice by presenting practical and reflective essays on the nature of changes in the legal sector - Analyses technological changes taking place in the legal sector, situates where these developments have taken place, who has brought them about and their impact on society Siddharth Peter de Souza is a research fellow and PhD candidate at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Maximilian Spohr is the policy advisor on civil rights to Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, primarily leading the foundation's international human rights program. He holds a PhD in Public International Law from the University of Heidelberg.

Explores the use of images, sounds and videos in Jihadi media and how people engage with them ISIS is often described as a terrorist organisation that uses social media to empower its supporters and reinforce its message. Through 12 case studies, this book examines the different ways in which Jihadi groups and their supporters use visualisation, sound production and aesthetic means to articulate their cause in online as well as offline contexts. Divided into 4 thematic sections, the chapters probe Jihadi appropriation of traditional and popular cultural expressions and show how, in turn, political activists appropriate extremist media to oppose and resist the propaganda. By conceptualising militant Islamist audiovisual productions as part of global media aesthetics and practices, the authors shed light on how religious actors, artists, civil society activists, global youth, political forces, security agencies and researchers engage with mediated manifestations of Jihadi ideology to deconstruct, reinforce, defy or oppose the messages. Key Features - Fosters theoretical approaches to audiovisuality in the context of 'propagandistic' imagery - Points to strategies and logics of appropriation within and around Jihadi audiovisuality, such as humour, re-enactments and memetic forms of cultural resistance - Considers cultural and aesthetic expressions that evolve in response to Jihadi media output - Presents empirically grounded research, combined with historical, multi-modal, rhetorical, ethnomusicological and digital audiovisual analysis and interpretations - Case studies include: an exploration of staged violence in IS productions; the appropriation of IS's nashīd Ṣalīl al-Ṣawārim in digital contexts; the responses by social workers and former supporters of jihadi groups and movements; and how researchers themselves are part of the entanglements caused by politicisation and securitisation of Islam Christoph Günther is the Principal Investigator and Simone Pfeifer is a Postdoctoral Researcher of the junior research group 'Jihadism on the Internet: Images and Videos, their Dissemination and Appropriation' at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. Cover image: Scarecrow, Khalid Albaih 2019 Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-6751-3 Barcode

Puts modernist theatre from the realist-naturalist tradition to the historical avant-garde in conversation with new materialist, posthumanist philosophy Arguing that existing modernization theories have been unnecessarily one-sided, Hedwig Fraunhofer offers a rewriting of modernity that cuts across binary methodologies - nature and culture, mind and matter, epistemology and ontology, critique and affirmative writing, dramatic and postdramatic theatre. She specifically reworks the biopolitical exclusions that mark modern western epistemology, leading up to modernity's totalitarian crisis point. Fraunhofer reveals the performativity of theatre in its double sense - as theatrical production and as the intra-activity of a dynamic system of multiple relations between human and more-than-human actors, energies and affects. In modern theatre, public and private, human and more-than-human, materiality and meaning collapse in a common life. Hedwig Fraunhofer is Professor of French and German at Georgia College.

A systematic reflection on the social conditions of caring for others Estelle Ferrarese argues for an understanding of morality that is materialist and political. Taking the Frankfurt School philosopher Theodor W. Adorno as a point of departure, she questions his social philosophy by submitting it to ideas deriving from theories of care. She thinks through the mechanisms of the social fragility of caring for others, the moral gestures it enjoins, as well as its political stakes. Ferrarese shows that the capitalist form of life, strained by a generalised indifference, produces a compartmentalised attention to others, one limited to very particular tasks and domains and attributed to women. Offering a systematic study of the idea of 'coldness' in Adorno's philosophy, she stages a dialogue between Adornian Critical Theory and the ethics of care. In doing so, Ferrarese approaches old questions in a new light in a bid to give dignity to the singular, to make its specific claims and its moral pertinence heard. Estelle Ferrarese is Professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at Picardie-Jules-Verne University, France. Steven Corcoran has translated numerous works by French and German philosophers, including Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou, and is the editor of The Badiou Dictionary, published by Edinburgh University Press.

The achievements and legacy of the Scottish Enlightenment, inspired by the work of Christopher Berry The Scottish Enlightenment has been one of the growth fields in scholarship on eighteenth-century intellectual history. The era is renowned for its seminal and interrelated contributions to understanding the emergence of the human sciences, the framing of modern political economy and for its pioneering study of commercial society. This collection of specially commissioned essays, examines the texts and central achievements of the Scottish Enlightenment. It focuses on the transformative contribution of the Scottish literati to modernity by examining three central themes: the Scots' pioneering conception of commercial society, the equally pioneering development of the Scots 'science of human nature, ' and the emergence of the modern political economy. An international group of Scottish Enlightenment scholars from a variety of disciplines provide explorations for these achievements, with a special focus on the work of Adam Smith and David Hume. They take their launching point from themes in the work of Professor Christopher J. Berry who is internationally known and respected for the work he has done to establish the coherence and significance of the Scottish Enlightenment. R. J. W. Mills, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in History, Queen Mary, University of London. Craig Smith is Adam Smith Senior Lecturer in the Scottish Enlightenment in the School of Social and Political sciences at the University of Glasgow.

In Age of Rogues, leading scholars engage with themes of historical and cultural legacies, contentious interactions within imperial regimes, and the biographical trajectory of men and women who challenged the political status quo of their time.

Offers the first scholarly study of the Oscars red carpet as a media phenomenon.

Giorgio Agamben's form-of-life discloses the possibility of a new understanding of political and legal life. This book places 'form-of-life' in the context of contemporary philosophy, re-imagining some of the basic categories of human socialities- such as work, rights, obligation, property and use.

Approaches the recent resurgence of the fantastic in Chinese cinemas.

This book tells the gripping story of R?fiq Taq?, an Azerbaijani journalist and writer, who was condemned to death by an Iranian cleric for a blasphemous news article in 2006. Mohsen Kadivar debates the case with Muhammad Jawad Fazel, the son of Grand Ayatollah Fazel Lankar?n? who issued the fatwa pronouncing death penalty on Taq?.

How architecture constructs communal identities in the contested urban space of Jerusalem Examining a fascinating and critical epoch in the architectural history of Jerusalem, this book presents a fresh and analytical discussion of British Mandate-era architecture through an exploration of 4 buildings that have had a lasting impact on the city's built environment. The author reveals how these building projects evolved as an outcome of cross-cultural influences and relations between the British, American, Jewish-Zionist and Muslim-Palestinian communities. And she shows how the building and design processes behind these structures give new perspectives on the adaptation of modern architecture in the Middle East and the negotiation of historicism and vernacular architecture during the first half of the 20th century. Key Features  Focuses on 4 case studies: the Muslim Palestinian Palace Hotel; the Jewish-Zionist Zionist Executive Buildings; the British Palestine Archaeological Museum (the Rockefeller Museum); and the American Jerusalem YMCA Building  Shows the major role that architecture and architectural culture had in constructing communal and national identities in Jerusalem and in Mandate Palestine  Increases our understanding of the interaction between cultural forces in the Middle East and the emergence of 20th-century architectural culture in Israel/Palestine  Includes 50 colour and 74 black-and-white illustrations Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler is a Senior Lecturer of Architecture and Visual Culture at Sapir Academic College, and an adjunct lecturer at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. She is co-editor of Israel As a Modern Architectural Laboratory, 1948-1978 (2019).

Hotel Modernity explores the impact of corporate space on the construction and texture of modern fiction and film.

Provides a deeper understanding of the comforts of reading literature

Explores the relationship between soft power and film in relation to national and transnational cinemas.

Sets out an innovative agenda for approaching literary critique While connecting to the 'post-critique' debate, this study draws on Italian Theory to provide an alternative critical method in literary studies, including the ethical underpinnings of critique. It proposes that critique is an attitude and stance towards others and a set of dispositions toward the object of study, such as indocility, receptiveness, openness to transformation, awareness of relationality, attention to language, attunement to the body, distance, displacement, externality and wonder. It deals with the link between modernism and theory as an important object of intellectual history and it elaborates on the potential of feminism and psychoanalysis to open up affirmative resources in language. Drawing on archival materials, the book includes sustained readings of Benjamin, Butler, Foucault, Jameson, Dimock, Esposito, Saussure, Virno, Hélène Cixous, Lacan, as well as T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Clarice Lispector, the Digital Book Project by Airan Kang and the photography of George Platt Lynes. Mena Mitrano is Associate Professor of American literature and language in the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. She is the author of Gertrude Stein: Woman Without Qualities (2005) and In the Archive of Longing: Susan Sontag's Critical Modernism (Edinburgh University Press 2016).

This new edition includes a historically and theoretically informed critical introduction that situates the novel within American social and literary history, also featuring a bibliography for further research and appendices detailing the significant differences between the two nineteenth-century editions.

This critical edition documents Frederick Douglass's relationship with Britain through unexplored oratory and print culture.

Examines state-middle class reciprocities in the making, persistence and failure of the Egyptian social contract