Between Truth and History: Perspectives on Culture, Politics, and Theory
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1st ed.
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8120722582
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xii+220p., 23cm.
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Written in the last decade of the millennium, the book is of enormous range and subtlety. It is born out of an intellectual confrontation with the ideas of some of the foremost thinkers of modern times. Shelley Walia takes as his starting point the role of the intellectual and his position vis-?-vis the writing of foundational histories which need to be challenged. He is against the insulation of the academia from larger public life and it is for this reason that ...
