How might we reinvent the humanities? This is the question at the heart of this provocative volume. It is a difficult mission and definitely one which needs to be addressed with increasing urgency. There is no better cast to confront and problematize this question than the contributors to Conflicting Humanities. They are world-renowned thinkers who can tackle the problem as researchers and teachers but also as prominent public intellectuals.Taking the intellectual and political legacies of Edward Said as a point of departure and frame of reference, the contributors - working in a range of disciplinary settings - consider the current condition of humanism and the humanities. Said's definition of the core task of the Humanities as the pursuit of democratic criticism remains more urgent than ever, though it needs to be supplemented by gender, environmental, and anti-racist perspectives as well as by detailed analysis of the necro-political governmentality of our time. An innovative piece of scholarship, this volume is committed to the refusal of a world riven by new kinds of warcraft, injustice and exploitation.

AcknowledgementsIntroductionRosi Braidotti and Paul GilroyChapter 1: The Contested PosthumanitiesRosi BraidottiChapter 2: A Borderless World?Gayatri Chakravorty SpivakChapter 1: Borderless Worlds?Ankhi MukherjeeChapter 1: Humanities and Emancipation. Said's Politics of Critique Between Interpretation and InterferenceJamila M. H. MascatChapter 1: Not Yet Humanism or the Non-Jewish Jew Becomes the Non-Humanistic HumanistPaul GilroyThe Political Enlightenment: A View from the SouthAkeel Bilgrami"We belong to Palestine still": Edward Said and the Challenge of RepresentationRobert J.C. Young"Where Am I Supposed to Go Now?"Ariella AzoulayThe Missing Homeland of Edward SaidAamir R. MuftiVersions of Binationalism in Said and BuberJudith ButlerFurther Reflections on Exile: War and TranslationÉtienne BalibarWe, the Non-Europeans: Derrida with SaidEngin Isin Musical Dis-PossessionsStathis GourgourisIn the Time of Not Yet: On the Imaginary of Edward SaidMarina WarnerIndex