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Book SynopsisPresents a philosophical investigation of the human subject and its simultaneous implication in multiple and often contradictory ways of knowing. This title argues that there is still something profoundly vulnerable that is at stake in the practice of phenomenology.
Trade Review“[A] compelling interrogation. . . .” - Christine M. Battista,
Modern Fiction Studies“Radhakrishnan's great contribution in this book [is that] he shows that every proposition offered in the service of understanding the world is also a form of negation, and even the best intentions of theorists and poets may foreclose on the very generative potential of alterity, of the unfinished processes of becoming.”
- Stephen M. Levin, MELUS
“[A] work of noteworthy scholarship. Committed rigorously to the in-between space father than ‘the comfort and security of a monologic home’ (24),
History, the Human and the World Between emblemizes intellectual cosmopolitanism with the author's existential respect for the particularity of humanity, poststructuralist critique of totalization, and a fervent pursuit of the dialogical relations between the compulsion to define and a learned conviction about the limitation of defining and definitions.” - Leilei Chen,
Ariel“Highly recommended.” -
K. M. Kapanga,
Choice“
History, the Human, and the World Between will certainly become a significant locus of theoretical discussion given R. Radhakrishnan’s remarkable ability to bring into conjunction lines and lineages of thought that are so often pursued discretely.”—
David Lloyd, author of
Ireland after History“In this provocative, enlightening theoretical exegesis, R. Radhakrishnan brings together a series of theorists—Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger, Ranajit Guha, and David Harvey—who are rarely, if ever, examined in conjunction with each other. Maintaining a powerfully rigorous and lucid focus on the epistemological structures underlying their theories, Radhakrishnan brings them all to bear on the problematic relations between the human subject, history, temporality, and world created by the interaction between these. This is an excellent book.”—
Abdul R. JanMohamed, author of
The Death-Bound-Subject: Richard Wright’s Archaeology of Death“R. Radhakrishnan’s caring but critical engagement with the writings of Ranajit Guha and Edward Said—set in the background of some deep reflections on the intellectual heritage of poststructuralism—reinvigorates for our times the long-standing conversation between postcolonial critics and modern European thought. A stimulating contribution to contemporary debates.”—
Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference“A compelling interrogation. . . .” -- Christine M. Battista * Modern Fiction Studies *
“A work of noteworthy scholarship. Committed rigorously to the in-between space father than ‘the comfort and security of a monologic home’ (24),
History, the Human and the World Between emblemizes intellectual cosmopolitanism with the author's existential respect for the particularity of humanity, poststructuralist critique of totalization, and a fervent pursuit of the dialogical relations between the compulsion to define and a learned conviction about the limitation of defining and definitions.” -- Leilei Chen * ariel *
“Highly recommended.” -- K. M. Kapanga * Choice *
“Radhakrishnan's great contribution in this book [is that] he shows that every proposition offered in the service of understanding the world is also a form of negation, and even the best intentions of theorists and poets may foreclose on the very generative potential of alterity, of the unfinished processes of becoming.”
-- Stephen M. Levin * MELUS *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Revisionism and the Subject of History 31
2. Edward Said and the Politics of Secular Humanism 115
3. Worldling, by Any Other Name 183
Notes 249
Works Cited 267
Index 281
