Nirvana Tanoukhi
Biographic Data
| ID | 971270 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nirvana Tanoukhi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nirvana |
| FAMILY NAME | Tanoukhi |
| SIGNATURE | TANOUKHI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
It is common for those who live in democratic societies to talk about the importance of speaking to others. But what about the desirability of speaking to others? At first glance, the question appears false, since the answer seems obvious: Of course speaking to others is desirable! Engaging with others who disagree with us is part and parcel of the democratic way of life. And yet, we need not look too far to find the public sphere mired in intens…
What It Takes to Want to Turn to Others
The retreat from dialogue by citizens of Anglo-European democracies is a topic of interdisciplinary debate. This article argues that the problem cannot be solved so long as it is conceived as a matter of inability to handle the discomfort of disagreement. For knowing how to get through a difficult conversation does not make people want to dialogue, nor does making conversations less difficult. The problem is one of disinclination to turn to other…
Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World
The Scale of World Literature
This is his home; he can't be far away
Rewriting Political Commitment for an International Canon
When Fredric Jameson called for decentering the Western canon through the inclusion of "national allegories" from the non-Western world (Jameson 66), Aijaz Ahmad insisted that literature from the "third world" is by no means marginalized in the West. A proper critique of the academy, Ahmad argued, must examine the conditions by which numerous non-Western texts have been "selectively admitted" to form this Western canon of "third world literature"…
The Scale of World Literature
This is his home; he can't be far away
Rewriting Political Commitment for an International Canon
When Fredric Jameson called for decentering the Western canon through the inclusion of "national allegories" from the non-Western world (Jameson 66), Aijaz Ahmad insisted that literature from the "third world" is by no means marginalized in the West. A proper critique of the academy, Ahmad argued, must examine the conditions by which numerous non-Western texts have been "selectively admitted" to form this Western canon of "third world literature"…
Rewriting Political Commitment for an International Canon
When Fredric Jameson called for decentering the Western canon through the inclusion of "national allegories" from the non-Western world (Jameson 66), Aijaz Ahmad insisted that literature from the "third world" is by no means marginalized in the West. A proper critique of the academy, Ahmad argued, must examine the conditions by which numerous non-Western texts have been "selectively admitted" to form this Western canon of "third world literature"…
The Scale of World Literature
This is his home; he can't be far away
Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World
Introduction
It is common for those who live in democratic societies to talk about the importance of speaking to others. But what about the desirability of speaking to others? At first glance, the question appears false, since the answer seems obvious: Of course speaking to others is desirable! Engaging with others who disagree with us is part and parcel of the democratic way of life. And yet, we need not look too far to find the public sphere mired in intens…
What It Takes to Want to Turn to Others
The retreat from dialogue by citizens of Anglo-European democracies is a topic of interdisciplinary debate. This article argues that the problem cannot be solved so long as it is conceived as a matter of inability to handle the discomfort of disagreement. For knowing how to get through a difficult conversation does not make people want to dialogue, nor does making conversations less difficult. The problem is one of disinclination to turn to other…
Geography (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Scale (ratio) (2 works) · Agency (philosophy) (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Aside (1 work) · Attunement (1 work)