This thesis examines the deep interconnections between classical learning and modern international relations among three early-twentieth-century British internationalists, Gilbert Murray, Arnold J. Toynbee and Alfred Zimmern. These intellectuals began their careers as classical …
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Development has been studied as a project pursued by imperialist nations to strengthen the social and economic order of empire and to curb communism. It was deployed just as frequently, however, in sovereign spaces. This project examines the efforts of the Italian intellectuals …
This dissertation explores a peculiarly French case of the ideological thaw in the Sixties, when the belated disenchantment with USSR prompted Parisian intellectuals to recast their interests: out of Europe, via tiers-mondisme, or out of history, via structuralism. Towering figu…
Based on the works of three postcolonial Maghrebian writers, this study focuses on different aspects of exclusion and the relevance, of current Western thinkers approaches to the role of intellectuals. While Sartre, Foucault, Gramsci, Bourdieu and others all provide useful categ…
In this dissertation, I examine travel and travel writing among British and American writers during the years between World War I and World War II. I focus in particular on how Ezra Pound, E. E. Cummings, Wyndham Lewis, and Rebecca West variously employed the travel genre to rec…
This dissertation seeks to avoid the common reading of postcolonial novels as embracing nationalism because they challenge empire. While recognizing that postcolonial novelists contest the imperialist construction of Africans and Asians as biologically, culturally, and intellect…
This thesis, through an examination of literary texts, defines the political views and ideas of nearly a dozen francophone Algerian intellectuals and writers from the mid-1950's—during the early years of Algeria's war of independence against France—to the present. It gives an ac…
Since the introduction of modernity to the Arab World in 1798, the Arab World has experienced three attempts of modernization called (Arab Nahdha projects). These projects served as the theoretical and practical agenda for social change, designed for achieving liberty, progress …
This thesis analyses processes of discursive European identity formation in three cultural journals: Esprit, from France, the British New Left Review and the German Merkur during the time periods 1989-92, and, a decade later, during 2003-06. The theoretical framework which the t…
This thesis is an intellectual history that examines the identity development of the Bosnian Serbs at the turn of the twentieth century. It argues that during Austria-Hungary peacetime occupation of Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1878 to 1914, an increasing number of Bosnian Serb intel…
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, textual analysis, and data culled from interviews, this manuscript explores how Islamic ethics shape the epistemic approaches of Muslim intellectuals to liberal democracy and corollary paradigms of western modernity. Specifically, it examines a c…
After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) established Soviet-style journalism, marking a break with traditional Chinese journalism. This meant that the liberal journalists had to adapt to a new political and journalistic…
This thesis explores the role of intellectuals during the early Medieval (c. 500-1169) and pre-Famine (c. 1750-1845) periods in Ireland. In examining these historical cases, I show that despite the vast differences in the social structure of these societies, the intellectual seg…
My dissertation investigates the fields of modern Islamology and Iranology and its late nineteenth and early twentieth-century context. In particular I argue that the discipline of Sufi mysticism--the academic study of Persian mystical poetry--was the site of national, gendered,…
This dissertation examines the trajectory of nationalist activism within Eritrea's Muslim communities during the two decades between the end of Italian colonial rule and the beginning of Eritrea's war of independence against Ethiopia. Specifically, this study looks at how Muslim…
The state of Levantine Marxists today is one of exhaustion on both the political and intellectual fronts. Things have not always been this way. In the 1960's through the 1970's the Leftist scene was a vibrant one in terms of critical intellectual production and political activit…
In Muslim West Africa, food-producing villages also produced literate scholars. This study examines how such unlikely intellectuals acquired and gave meaning to Islamic knowledge through one village's experience from 1900 to the 1960s. Unlike the colonial sources underlying conv…