Refusing to be Silent: Engaged Conversations with Leading Intellectuals (Politics) - Softcover

Zarić, Zona; Pudar Draško, Gazela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8869774384 ISBN 13: 9788869774386

Publisher: Mimesis International, 2023

Synopsis

How can we approach the world and guide our thinking in the face of profound, myriad challenges? This is the ambitious question that animates the current volume. The book seeks to formulate these challenges and develop ways to tackle them through a set of wide-ranging interviews with leading intellectuals of our times, including Nancy Fraser, Seyla Benhabib, Michael Walzer and Etienne Balibar. Contributing fresh perspectives on current events – from the liberation of women’s voices to the crisis of secularism; from populism, the pandemic, and the rise of conspiracy theories to new forms of resistance – these essays show a refusal to lapse into rigid and reductive oppositions, instead providing critically nuanced interpretations of contemporary events and struggles. The collection brings together original and accessible points of view, selected by researchers from the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade, in the pursuit of and safeguarding intellectual freedom.

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About the Author

Gazela Pudar Draško is a political sociologist, and the Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade. She holds a doctorate in the sociology of intellectuals from the University of Belgrade. She serves as a member of the Summit for Democracy Cohort for Deliberative Democracy and Citizens Assemblies. Her fields of interest are deliberative democracy, participatory democratic innovations, social engagement and intellectuals.

Zona Zarić is a philosopher and feminist. She is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory at the University of Belgrade, and Professor of Political Philosophy at the American University of Paris. She holds a law degree from the University of Belgrade, a master's degree in international relations from the American University of Paris, and a doctorate in philosophy from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris. In her work, she focuses on issues of contemporary and moral philosophy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mimesis International
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8869774384
• ISBN 13: 9788869774386
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224