Wars of Position: The Cultural Politics of Left and Right

Timothy Brennan

Paper, 360 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13731-7
$24.50 / £14.50

February, 2006
Cloth, 360 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13730-0
$32.00 / £19.00

Preface

Acknowledgments

Cultures of Belief: The Turn in Contemporary American Thought

Part 1. Belief and Its Discontents

1. The Barbaric Left

2. Nativism

3. Humanism, Philology, and Imperialism

4. Globalization’s Unlikely Champions

Part 2. The Anarchist Sublime

5. The Organizational Imaginary

6. The Empire’s New Clothes

7. Cosmo-Theory

8. The Southern Intellectual

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• American History
• Cultural Studies
• Literary Criticism and Theory

About the Author

Timothy Brennan is professor of comparative literature, cultural studies, and English at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of At Home in the World: Cosmopolitanism Now and Salman Rushdie and the Third World: Myths of the Nation.

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