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This book provides the first detailed account of Gramsci's work in
the context of current critical and socio-cultural debates. Renate
Holub argues that Gramsci was ahead of his time in offering a
theory of art, politics and cultural production. Gramsci's
achievement is discussed particularly in relation to the Frankfurt
School (Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin, Bloch, Habermas), to Brecht's
theoretical writings and to thinkers in the phenomenological
tradition especially Merleau-Ponty. She argues for Gramsci's
continuing relevance at a time of retreat from Marxist positions on
the postmodern left.
Five centuries after the expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Spain, Europe is once again becoming a land of Islam. At the beginning of a new millennium, and in an era marked as one of globalization, Europe continues to wrestle with the issue of national identity, especially in the context of its Muslim citizens. Muslim Europe or Euro-Islam brings together distinguished scholars from Europe, the United States, and the Middle East in a dynamic discussion about the Muslim populations living in Europe and about Europe's role in framing Islam today. The book raises several crucial questions: Does Islam offer a special case for citizenship? Is assimilation or multiculturalism the model to be followed in the case of Muslims in Europe? How powerful a force is Islam in determining identity? And why is Islam--after centuries of being a presence in Europe--not considered a European religion? Working at the knotty intersection of cultural identity, the politics of nations and nationalisms, and religious persuasions, this is an invaluable anthology of scholarship that reveals the multifaceted natures of both Europe and Islam.
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