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Border Thinking on the Edges of the West - Crossing Over the Hellespont (Paperback)
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Border Thinking on the Edges of the West - Crossing Over the Hellespont (Paperback)
Series: Worlding Beyond the West
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Drawing on scholarly and life experience on, and over, the
historically posited borders between "West" and "East," the work
identifies, interrogates, and challenges a particular, enduring,
violent inheritance - what it means to cross over a border - from
the classical origins of Western political thought. The study has
two parts. The first is an effort to work within the Western
tradition to demonstrate its foundational and enduring, violent
conception of crossing over borders. The second is a creative
effort to explore and encourage a fundamentally different outlook
towards borders and what it means to be on, at, or over them. The
underlying social theoretical disposition of the work is a form of
post-Orientalist hermeneutics; the textual subject matter of the
two parts of the study is linked using Walter Benjamin's concept of
the storyteller. The underlying premise of the work is that the
sense of violent possibility on the borders between "West" and
"East" existed well before the more recent "age of imperialism" and
even before there was a "West" or an "East" to speak of. That sense
is constitutive of a political imagination about borders developed
deep within the revered sources of Western culture. On the other
hand, confronting the influence of such violent imaginaries
requires truly novel modes of hermeneutical openness, hospitality
and solidarity. Seeking to offer a new understanding and opening in
the study of borders, this work will provide a significant
contribution to several areas including international relations
theory, border studies and political theory.
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