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Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence

Product Description: 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...read more

By Bruce Robbins

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9780822351986 | Duke Univ Pr, May 28, 2012, cover price $84.95 | 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.

Paperback:

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.

Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture

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

By David Palumbo-Liu (editor), Bruce Robbins (editor) and Nirvana Tanoukhi (editor)

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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.

Paperback:

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.

The Mythology of Imperialism: A Revolutionary Critique of British Literature and Society in the Modern Age

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

By Bruce Robbins (foreword by)

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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.

Paperback:

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.

Upward Mobility & the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State

Product Description: 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...read more

By Bruce Robbins

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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.

Paperback:

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 | About this edition: We think we know what upward mobility stories are about--virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished.

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

The Longman Anthology of World Literature: Compact Edition

By April Alliston, Marshall Brown, David Damrosch (editor), David L. Pike (editor) and Bruce Robbins

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9780321436900 | 1 edition (Longman Pub Group, January 15, 2007), cover price $106.40

The Longman Anthology of World Literature: The Nineteenth Century

By April Alliston (contributor), David Damrosch (editor), David L. Pike (contributor), Sheldon Pollock (contributor) and Bruce Robbins

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9780321173065 | 1 edition (Longman Pub Group, February 1, 2004), cover price $55.40

Feeling Global: Internationalism in Distress

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)

By Bruce Robbins

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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?

Paperback:

9780814775141 | New York Univ Pr, January 1, 1999, cover price $27.00

Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nation

Product Description: Book by Social Text Collective (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Pheng Cheah (editor), Bruce Robbins (editor) and Social Text Collective (corporate author)

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Hardcover:

9780816630677 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $68.95 | About this edition: Book by Social Text Collective

Paperback:

9780816630684 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $26.00

The Servant's Hand: English Fiction from Below

Product Description: A work of innovative literary and cultural history, The Servant's Hand examines the representation of servants in nineteenth-century British fiction. Wandering in the margins of these texts that are not about them, servants are visible only as anachronistic appendages to their masters and as functions of traditional narrative form...read more

By Bruce Robbins

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9780231059664 | Columbia Univ Pr, February 1, 1986, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: A work of innovative literary and cultural history, The Servant's Hand examines the representation of servants in nineteenth-century British fiction.

Paperback:

9780822313977 | Reprint edition (Duke Univ Pr, September 1, 1993), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A work of innovative literary and cultural history, The Servant's Hand examines the representation of servants in nineteenth-century British fiction.

Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture

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

By Bruce Robbins

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Hardcover:

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.

Paperback:

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.

The Phantom Public Sphere

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)

By Bruce Robbins (editor) and Social Text Collective (corporate author)

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Hardcover:

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.

Paperback:

9780816621262 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, May 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.

Intellectuals: Aesthetics, Politics, Academics

Book by Robbins, Bruce

By Bruce Robbins (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780816618309 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $39.95

Paperback:

9780816618316 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $26.50 | About this edition: Book by Robbins, Bruce

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