Edward Said And Jacques Derrida: Reconstellating Humanism And The Global Hybrid

Edward Said and Jacques Derrida: Reconstellating Humanism and the Global Hybrid Edward Said and Jacques Derrida: Reconstellating Humanism and the Global Hybrid Edited by Mina Karavanta and Nina Morgan Cambridge Scholars Publishing MAIN 209 5/3Jt'-edVJ Edward Said and Jacques Dcrrida: Rcconstcllating Humanism and the Global Hybrid, Edited by Mina Karavanla and Nina Morgan This book first published 2008 by Cambridge Scholars Publishing 15 Angerton Gardens, Newcastle, NES 2JA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library CopYright C> 2008 by Mina Karavanta and Nina Morgan and contributOr> All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying. recording or otherwise, withoutlhe prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-84718-616-5, ISBN (13): 9781847186164 To our loving husbands, Peter Morgan and Dimitris Angelopoulos, and children, Nicholas Morgan, Amarantha and Marilia Angelopoulos, who bore witness to our absence and presence and traveled with us, and who have taught us and continue to teach us to think. in a loving and caring way. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements Introduction "Humanism, Hybridity and Democratic Praxis" Mina Karavanta and Nina Morgan ix I PART I: DECONSTRUCTING HUMANISM IN THE NAME OF THE HUMAN AS NOT ONE Chapter One "Edward Said's Humanism and American Exceptionalism: , An Interrogation after 9/11" William V. Spanos 24 Chapter Two 55 "'Like a Sibylline Creature': The Woman Migrant as Humanist Subject in Jacob Lawrence's Early Work" Julla Gsoels-Lorensen Chapter Three , "Edward Said's Literary Humanism" R. Radhakrishnan 88 Chapter Four 116 "'In the Precarious Exilic Realm': Edward Said's Andalusian Journeys" Tabea Linhard PART II: AFFIRMING HUMANISM: SECULAR CRITICISM AND DEMOCRATIC PRAXIS Chapter Five " "Said and Secularism" Bruce Robbins 140 VIII " Table Of Contents Chapter Six "Humanism Between Hubris and Heroism" Vassilis Lambropoulos 158 Chapter Seven "Rethinking Humanism" Stathis Gourgouris 174 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Chapter Eight... " "The Utopian Humanist" Efterpi Mitsi ~ 199 PART III: THE GLOBAL HYBRID AND THE CALL FOR CRITIQUE: RETHINKING THE HUMAN AND HER/HIS ABODE Chapter Nine "Ethical Antihumanism" Samir Dayal , Chapter Ten "Towards a Post-Western Humanism Made to the Measure of Those Recently Recognized as Human" Joan Anim-Addo Chapter Eleven "La Dividua-A Gendered Figuration for A Planetary Humanism" Giovanna Covi I( I