LIBROS DEL AUTOR: hamid dabashi

11 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: hamid dabashi

  • Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema
    Hamid Dabashi
    The rise of Iranian cinema to world prominence over the last few decades is one of the most fascinating cultural stories of our time. There is scarcely an international film festival anywhere that does not honor the aesthetic and political explorations of Iranian artists. Masters & Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema celebrates this remarkable emergence. It focuses on twelve of the ...
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    55,23 €

  • Can Non-Europeans Think?
    Hamid Dabashi
    ’In Can Non-Europeans Think? Dabashi takes his subtle but vigorous polemic to another level.’Pankaj MishraWhat happens to thinkers who operate outside the European philosophical pedigree? In this powerfully honed polemic, Hamid Dabashi argues that they are invariably marginalised, patronised and misrepresented.Challenging, pugnacious and stylish, Can Non-Europeans Think? forges...
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    27,09 €

  • Reversing the Colonial Gaze
    Hamid Dabashi
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    49,74 €

  • The Emperor is Naked
    Hamid Dabashi
    The invention of the nation-state was the crowning achievement of the Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France in 1916. As a geostrategic move to divide, defeat, and dismantle the Ottoman Empire during World War I, it was a great success and the modern colonial borders of the Arab nation-states eventually emerged in the course of World War II.Today, as nation...
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    27,47 €

  • Europe and Its Shadows
    Hamid Dabashi
    Europe has long imagined itself as the centre of the universe, although its precise geographical, cultural and social terrains have always been amorphous. Exploring the fear and fascination associated with the continent as an allegory, Hamid Dabashi considers Europe to be a historically formed barricade against the world.Frantz Fanon’s assessment that ’Europe is literally the c...
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    40,94 €

  • Corpus Anarchicum
    Hamid Dabashi
    This book is a meditation on and an attempt to understand suicidal violence in the immediate context of its most recent political surge: the decade between 2001 and 2011, from the suicidal mission of Muhammad Atta and his band in the United States to the suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi in 2010 in Tunisia. After the former a devastating military strike and occupation of two Muslim c...
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    66,51 €

  • The Arab Spring
    Hamid Dabashi
    This pioneering explanation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East.In this landmark book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings that have engulfed multiple countries and political climes from Morocco to Iran and from Syria to Yemen, were driven by a ’Delayed Defiance’ - a point of rebellion against domestic tyranny and globali...
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    32,55 €

  • Islamic Liberation Theology
    Hamid Dabashi
    This book is a radical piece of counter-intuitive rethinking of the clash of civilizations theory and global politics. In this richly detailed criticism of contemporary politics, Hamid Dabashi argues that after 9/11 we have not seen a new phase in a long running confrontation between Islam and the West, but that such categories have in fact collapsed and exhausted themselves. ...
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    94,57 €

  • Makhmalbaf at Large
    Hamid Dabashi
    The name of Mohsen Makhmalbaf is almost synonymous with the dramatic rise of Iranian cinema in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution, and over the last quarter of a century, his career as filmmaker and writer has reflected the tumultuous history of his homeland and the fate of its neighbours. Hamid Dabashi draws from his friendship with Makhmalbaf, as well as his direct invol...
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    44,36 €

  • Theology of Discontent
    Hamid Dabashi
    Scores of books and articles have been published, addressing one or another aspect of the Islamic Revolution in Iran ...
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    95,88 €

  • Authority in Islam
    Hamid Dabashi
    From the origins of Muhammad’s prophetic movement through the development of Islam’s principal branches to the establishment of the Umayyad dynasty, the concept of authority has been central to Islamic civilization ...
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    88,38 €