Title: Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation
Abstract: Prologuehegemony of its knowledges and educational institutions.I don't think there is a tension here.Again, we are living in times when En glish is still the strongest global language, in a time when the educational institutions of the West, particularly those of the US, are still hegemonic and opening offshore outlets in diff er ent parts of the world; and yet the multiple po liti cal, economic, and military developments, particularly in the Arab world today, steer us toward not collapsing critique exclusively with opposition to the West.In this conjuncture, what are the analytical, po liti cal, and ethical costs of insisting that critical theory equals a critique of the West and its discourses?If "Eu rope is no longer the center of gravity of the world, " then how does this "fundamental experience of our era" impact the modalities of operation of critical practices and the po liti cal compass that guides metropolitan oppositional alignments? 8