LEADER 04629nam 2200685 450 001 9910823367003321 005 20230124182523.0 010 $a0-231-51045-4 024 7 $a10.7312/bren13730 035 $a(CKB)1000000000460197 035 $a(EBL)908530 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000269139 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11231302 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000269139 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10243256 035 $a(PQKB)10464827 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908530 035 $a(DE-B1597)458680 035 $a(OCoLC)64274669 035 $a(OCoLC)979831799 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231510455 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908530 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11086462 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL814398 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000460197 100 $a20150819h20062006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWars of position $ethe cultural politics of left and right /$fTimothy Brennan 210 1$aNew York, [New York] :$cColumbia University Press,$d2006. 210 4$dİ2006 215 $a1 online resource (356 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-231-13731-1 311 $a0-231-13730-3 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tPREFACE -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tIntroduction: Cultures of Belief -- $tPart 1. Belief and Its Discontents -- $t1. The Barbaric Left -- $t2. Nativism -- $t3. Humanism, Philology, and Imperialism -- $t4. Globalization's Unlikely Champions -- $tPart 2. The Anarchist Sublime -- $t5. The Organizational Imaginary -- $t6. The Empire's New Clothes -- $t7. Cosmo-Theory -- $t8. The Southern Intellectual -- $tNotes -- $tINDEX 330 $aTaking stock of contemporary social, cultural, and political currents, Timothy Brennan explores key turning points in the recent history of American intellectual life. He contends that a certain social-democratic vision of politics has been banished from public discussion, leading to an unlikely convergence of the political right and the academic left and a deadening of critical opposition. Brennan challenges the conventional view that affiliations based on political belief, claims upon the state, or the public interest have been rendered obsolete by the march of events in the years before and after Reagan. Instead, he lays out a new path for a future infused with a sense of intellectual and political possibility.In highlighting the shift in America's intellectual culture, Brennan makes the case for seeing belief as an identity. As much as race or ethnicity, political belief, Brennan argues, is itself an identity-one that remains unrecognized and without legal protections while possessing its own distinctive culture. Brennan also champions the idea of cosmopolitanism and critiques those theorists who relegate the left to the status of postcolonial "other."Wars of Position documents how alternative views were chased from the public stage by strategic acts of censorship, including within supposedly dissident wings of the humanities. He explores how the humanities entered the cultural and political mainstream and settled into an awkward secular religion of the "middle way." In a series of interrelated chapters, Brennan considers narratives of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Clinton impeachment; reexamines Salman Rushdie's pre-fatwa writing to illuminate its radical social leanings; presents a startling new interpretation of Edward Said; looks at the fatal reception of Antonio Gramsci within postcolonial history and criticism; and offers a stinging critique of Hardt and Negri's Empire and the influence of Italian radicalism on contemporary cultural theory. Throughout the work, Brennan also draws on and critiques the ideas and influence of Heidegger, Lyotard, Kristeva, and other influential theorists. 606 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States 606 $aHumanities$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States 606 $aConservatism$zUnited States 606 $aRight and left (Political science) 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1974-1977 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1977-1981 615 0$aPolitical culture 615 0$aHumanities$xPolitical aspects 615 0$aConservatism 615 0$aRight and left (Political science) 676 $a306.2/0973/0904 686 $a20.16$2bcl 700 $aBrennan$b Timothy$f1953-$0782810 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823367003321 996 $aWars of position$93977597 997 $aUNINA