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Revolution and Disenchantment - Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation (Paperback)
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Revolution and Disenchantment - Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation (Paperback)
Series: Theory in Forms
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The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the
question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning
political urgency. In Revolution and Disenchantment Fadi A.
Bardawil redescribes for our present how an earlier generation of
revolutionaries, the 1960s Arab New Left, addressed this question.
Bardawil excavates the long-lost archive of the Marxist
organization Socialist Lebanon and its main theorist, Waddah
Charara, who articulated answers in their political practice to
fundamental issues confronting revolutionaries worldwide:
intellectuals as vectors of revolutionary theory; political
organizations as mediators of theory and praxis; and
nonemancipatory attachments as impediments to revolutionary
practice. Drawing on historical and ethnographic methods and moving
beyond familiar reception narratives of Marxist thought in the
postcolony, Bardawil engages in "fieldwork in theory" that analyzes
how theory seduces intellectuals, cultivates sensibilities, and
authorizes political practice. Throughout, Bardawil underscores the
resonances and tensions between Arab intellectual traditions and
Western critical theory and postcolonial theory, deftly placing
intellectuals from those traditions into a much-needed
conversation.
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