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For two decades Bruce Robbins has been a theorist of and participant in the movement for a "new cosmopolitanism," an appreciation of the varieties of multiple belonging that emerge as peoples and cultures interact. In Perpetual War he takes stock of this movement, rethinking his own commitment and reflecting on the responsibilities of American intellectuals today. In this era of seemingly endless U.S. warfare, Robbins contends that the declining economic and political hegemony of the United States will tempt it into blaming other nations for its problems and lashing out against them.Under these conditions, cosmopolitanism in the traditional senseâprimary loyalty to the good of humanity as a whole, even if it conflicts with loyalty to the interests of one's own nationâbecomes a necessary resource in the struggle against military aggression. To what extent does the "new" cosmopolitanism also include or support this "old" cosmopolitanism? In an attempt to answer this question, Robbins engages with such thinkers as Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Anthony Appiah, Immanuel Wallerstein, Louis Menand, W. G. Sebald, and Slavoj Zizek. The paradoxes of detachment and belonging they embody, he argues, can help define the tasks of American intellectuals in an era when the first duty of the cosmopolitan is to resist the military aggression perpetrated by his or her own country.
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9780822351986 | Duke Univ Pr, May 28, 2012, cover price $84.95
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9780822352099 | Duke Univ Pr, May 28, 2012, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: For two decades Bruce Robbins has been a theorist of and participant in the movement for a "new cosmopolitanism," an appreciation of the varieties of multiple belonging that emerge as peoples and cultures interact.
Product Description: In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallersteinâs world-systems analysis. The renowned sociologist developed his influential critical framework to explain the historical and continuing exploitation of the rest of the world by the West...read more
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9780822348344 | Duke Univ Pr, January 28, 2011, cover price $84.95 | About this edition: In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallersteinâs world-systems analysis.
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9780822348481 | Duke Univ Pr, February 18, 2011, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallersteinâs world-systems analysis.
Product Description: "We, the readers and students of literature, have been hijacked. The literary critics, our teachers, those assassins of culture, have put us up against the wall and held us captive." So begins Jonah Raskinâs The Mythology of Imperialism...read more
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9781583671870 | New edition (Monthly Review Pr, August 1, 2009), cover price $79.00 | About this edition: "We, the readers and students of literature, have been hijacked.
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9781583671863 | New edition (Monthly Review Pr, August 1, 2009), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "We, the readers and students of literature, have been hijacked.
We think we know what upward mobility stories are about--virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished. Either way, these stories seem obviously concerned with the self-making of self-reliant individuals rather than with any collective interest. In Upward Mobility and the Common Good, Bruce Robbins completely overturns these assumptions to expose a hidden tradition of erotic social interdependence at the heart of the literary canon. Reinterpreting novels by figures such as Balzac, Stendhal, Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Dreiser, Wells, Doctorow, and Ishiguro, along with a number of films, Robbins shows how deeply the material and erotic desires of upwardly mobile characters are intertwined with the aid they receive from some sort of benefactor or mentor. In his view, Hannibal Lecter of The Silence of the Lambs becomes a key figure of social mobility in our time. Robbins argues that passionate and ambiguous relationships (like that between Lecter and Clarice Starling) carry the upward mobility story far from anyone's simple self-interest, whether the protagonist's or the mentor's. Robbins concludes that upward mobility stories have paradoxically helped American and European society make the transition from an ethic of individual responsibility to one of collective accountability, a shift that made the welfare state possible, but that also helps account for society's fascination with cases of sexual abuse and harassment by figures of authority.
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9780691049878 | Princeton Univ Pr, July 2, 2007, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: We think we know what upward mobility stories are about--virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished.
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9780691146638, titled "Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State" | Princeton Univ Pr, December 21, 2009, cover price $35.00
Miscellaneous:
9781400827657, titled "Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State" | Princeton Univ Pr, September 2, 2008, cover price $27.95
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9780321436900 | 1 edition (Longman Pub Group, January 15, 2007), cover price $106.40
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9780321173065 | 1 edition (Longman Pub Group, February 1, 2004), cover price $55.40
Product Description: Is global culture merely a pale and sinister reflection of capitalist globalization? Bruce Robbins responds to this and other questions in Feeling Global, a crucial document on nationalism, culturalism, and the role of intellectuals in the age of globalization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780814775134 | New York Univ Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Is global culture merely a pale and sinister reflection of capitalist globalization?
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9780814775141 | New York Univ Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $27.00
Product Description: Book by Social Text Collective (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780816630677 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $68.95 | About this edition: Book by Social Text Collective
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9780816630684 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $26.00
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9780231059664 | Columbia Univ Pr, February 1, 1986, cover price $90.00
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9780822313977 | Reprint edition (Duke Univ Pr, September 1, 1993), cover price $23.95
Product Description: During the 1980s, university-based intellectuals came under heavy fire from both radicals and conservatives. They were accused by the former of betraying their public duty as general critics of society, and by the latter of promulgating radical ideologies and corrupting the young...read more
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9780860914303 | Verso Books, August 1, 1993, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: During the 1980s, university-based intellectuals came under heavy fire from both radicals and conservatives.
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9780860916307 | Verso Books, August 1, 1993, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: During the 1980s, university-based intellectuals came under heavy fire from both radicals and conservatives.
Product Description: In the recent âculture warsâ over canon, curriculum, and multiculturalism, enraged voices repeatedly claim that the academy has failed in its duty to âthe public.â These cries echo older charges against the schools and the media for failing to produce active, informed citizens and, more recently, against race and gender politics for dividing the body politic against itself...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780816621248 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, July 1, 1993, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In the recent âculture warsâ over canon, curriculum, and multiculturalism, enraged voices repeatedly claim that the academy has failed in its duty to âthe public.
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9780816621262 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, May 1, 1993, cover price $19.95
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9780816618309 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $39.95
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9780816618316 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $26.50
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