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Informationen zum Autor Aziz Al-Azmeh teaches in Budapest at the Central European University Humanities Center. He has recently Published Islams and Modernities (Verso, London, 1996). Wang Bin is Full Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Criticism in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Zhongshan University, Canton. He also acts as the director of the Institute of Language Studies affiliated to the Philosophy Department, Zhongshan University. His main publications include The Destiny of Postmodernity in China . David A. Hollinger , a professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, is the author of Science, Jews and Secular Culture (Princeton University Press, 1996) and Post-Ethnic America: Beyond Multiculturalism (Basic Books, 1995). N. Jayaram is Professor of Scoiology at Goa University. He is the author of Higher Education and Status Retention and Social Conflict (co-edited with Satish Saberwal). He has also recently been commissioned by the Indian Sociological Society to edit a volume on the Indian Diaspora. Mahmood Mamdani teaches Anthropology at Columbia University in New York. He has recently published When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and the Genocide in Rwanda (Princeton University Press, 2002). Emmanuel Renault teaches philosophy at the ENS Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon. He has recently published, in collaboration with Yves Sintomer, Ou En Est la Theorie Critique? (La Decouverte, Paris, 2003). Klappentext An international series which explores the cultural specificity of four words that are key to the understanding of the human condition: Truth! Identity! Gender! and Experience.
