Ebook: Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left

London: Verso, 2006. — 158 p. — ISBN-10: 1844675629; ISBN-13: 978-1844675623.Renowned critical theorist Susan Buck-Morss argues convincingly that a global public needs to think past the twin insanities of terrorism and counter-terrorism in order to dismantle regressive intellectual barriers. Surveying the widespread literature on the relationship of Islam to modernity, she reveals that there is surprising overlap where scholars commonly and simplistically see antithesis. Thinking Past Terror situates this engagement with the study of Islam among critical contemporary discourses — feminism, post-colonialism and the critique of determinism.IntroductionA global public sphere?
Two critical theory and islamism
A global counter·culture?
Art in the age of technological surveillance
Five can there be a global left?Interview: Susan Buck-Morss with Laura Mulvey AND Marq Smith