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Resisting Sophistry
Talal Asad, On Suicide Bombing, New York, Columbia University Press, 2007; 144pp, £11.95 hardback.
Jacqueline Rose, The Last Resistance, London, Verso, 2007; 256pp, £16.99 hardback.Jacqueline Rose and Talal Asad are established and influential scholars who think critically about the Middle East. Although Rose is a literature scholar with an interest in psychoanalysis while Asad, an andiropologist by training, is interested in social and political theory, their new books address overlapping issues and are motivated by similar political concerns. Subtle, sophisticated, and imaginative, these two interventions have strikingly different approaches to theo...See the full content of this document
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