Revolution and Disenchantment

The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In Revolution and Disenchantment Fadi A. Bardawil redescribes for our present how an earlier generation of revolutionaries, the 1960s Arab New Left, address...

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Hoofdauteur: Bardawil, Fadi A.
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description The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In Revolution and Disenchantment Fadi A. Bardawil redescribes for our present how an earlier generation of revolutionaries, the 1960s Arab New Left, addressed this question. Bardawil excavates the long-lost archive of the Marxist organization Socialist Lebanon and its main theorist, Waddah Charara, who articulated answers in their political practice to fundamental issues confronting revolutionaries worldwide: intellectuals as vectors of revolutionary theory; political organizations as mediators of theory and praxis; and nonemancipatory attachments as impediments to revolutionary practice. Drawing on historical and ethnographic methods and moving beyond familiar reception narratives of Marxist thought in the postcolony, Bardawil engages in "fieldwork in theory" that analyzes how theory seduces intellectuals, cultivates sensibilities, and authorizes political practice. Throughout, Bardawil underscores the resonances and tensions between Arab intellectual traditions and Western critical theory and postcolonial theory, deftly placing intellectuals from those traditions into a much-needed conversation.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-282682025-07-21T15:58:28Z Revolution and Disenchantment Bardawil, Fadi A. Marxism anthropology of intellectuals postcolonialism Arab intellectual life translation critical theory Lebanon thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHG Middle Eastern history thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHG Middle Eastern history The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In Revolution and Disenchantment Fadi A. Bardawil redescribes for our present how an earlier generation of revolutionaries, the 1960s Arab New Left, addressed this question. Bardawil excavates the long-lost archive of the Marxist organization Socialist Lebanon and its main theorist, Waddah Charara, who articulated answers in their political practice to fundamental issues confronting revolutionaries worldwide: intellectuals as vectors of revolutionary theory; political organizations as mediators of theory and praxis; and nonemancipatory attachments as impediments to revolutionary practice. Drawing on historical and ethnographic methods and moving beyond familiar reception narratives of Marxist thought in the postcolony, Bardawil engages in "fieldwork in theory" that analyzes how theory seduces intellectuals, cultivates sensibilities, and authorizes political practice. Throughout, Bardawil underscores the resonances and tensions between Arab intellectual traditions and Western critical theory and postcolonial theory, deftly placing intellectuals from those traditions into a much-needed conversation. 2021-02-10T13:22:39Z 2021-02-10T13:22:39Z 2020-03-27 11:40:47 2020-04-01T06:48:07Z 2020 book 1007896 OCN: 1308952665 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22282 9781478007586; 9781478006756; 9781478006169 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/28268 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22282/1/9781478090274_OA.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22282/1/9781478090274_OA.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/22282/1/9781478090274_OA.pdf Duke University Press 10.1215/9781478090274 10.1215/9781478090274 8b9381d6-252e-4bed-8478-ee620c861aac 9781478007586; 9781478006756; 9781478006169 Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) 280 Durham open access
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