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Comparative and Continental Philosophy, 2015
This article pursues two distinct yet interrelated levels of analysis. Theoretically, the article... more This article pursues two distinct yet interrelated levels of analysis. Theoretically, the article seeks to destabilize Western narratives of a transition from humanism to anti-and post-humanism in radical scholarship by foregrounding two traditions from Eastern Europe and the Caribbean where the language of the human persisted long after its declared obsolescence in the West. The argument made here is that these divergent narratives (or " bifurcations ") of the human were neither wholly contingent nor just a matter of distinct intellectual traditions , but were deeply interwoven with both the history of the Cold War and the legacies of colonialism. On a praxical-political level, the article also engages in a close reading of arguably the major tradition of Marxist humanism in Eastern Europe, that of the Praxis circle in former Yugoslavia. While examining the specific political and theoretical reasons for the persistence of humanism in the writings of Praxis, the article argues that, in the end, their radical humanism never completely freed itself from its deep colonial dispositions, leading also to a series of controversial political choices in the 1990s. Drawing on Caribbean humanism as a counterpoint to the Marxist humanism of Praxis, the article argues that radical intellectuals in Eastern Europe today need to learn from both the insights and severe limitations of their Praxis predecessors.
Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 2011
Abstract Slavoj Ž i ž ek's more recent work rarely references the Balkans as a space of resis... more Abstract Slavoj Ž i ž ek's more recent work rarely references the Balkans as a space of resistant practices and possibilities. While highly critical of Western constructions of the Balkans, Ž i ž ek paradoxically evacuates the region of its peopled history. This article ...
European Journal of International Relations, 2011
... In describing a number of wealthy Arab immigrants sent to Europe in order to continue their s... more ... In describing a number of wealthy Arab immigrants sent to Europe in order to continue their studies, Sageman notes how, '[i]n their host countries, they were alienated, underemployed, and perhaps discriminated against, and therefore in a situation of relative deprivation ...
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Comparative and Continental Philosophy, 2015
This article pursues two distinct yet interrelated levels of analysis. Theoretically, the article... more This article pursues two distinct yet interrelated levels of analysis. Theoretically, the article seeks to destabilize Western narratives of a transition from humanism to anti-and post-humanism in radical scholarship by foregrounding two traditions from Eastern Europe and the Caribbean where the language of the human persisted long after its declared obsolescence in the West. The argument made here is that these divergent narratives (or " bifurcations ") of the human were neither wholly contingent nor just a matter of distinct intellectual traditions , but were deeply interwoven with both the history of the Cold War and the legacies of colonialism. On a praxical-political level, the article also engages in a close reading of arguably the major tradition of Marxist humanism in Eastern Europe, that of the Praxis circle in former Yugoslavia. While examining the specific political and theoretical reasons for the persistence of humanism in the writings of Praxis, the article argues that, in the end, their radical humanism never completely freed itself from its deep colonial dispositions, leading also to a series of controversial political choices in the 1990s. Drawing on Caribbean humanism as a counterpoint to the Marxist humanism of Praxis, the article argues that radical intellectuals in Eastern Europe today need to learn from both the insights and severe limitations of their Praxis predecessors.
Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society, 2011
Abstract Slavoj Ž i ž ek's more recent work rarely references the Balkans as a space of resis... more Abstract Slavoj Ž i ž ek's more recent work rarely references the Balkans as a space of resistant practices and possibilities. While highly critical of Western constructions of the Balkans, Ž i ž ek paradoxically evacuates the region of its peopled history. This article ...
European Journal of International Relations, 2011
... In describing a number of wealthy Arab immigrants sent to Europe in order to continue their s... more ... In describing a number of wealthy Arab immigrants sent to Europe in order to continue their studies, Sageman notes how, '[i]n their host countries, they were alienated, underemployed, and perhaps discriminated against, and therefore in a situation of relative deprivation ...