Product Description

Hage brings insights from political economy and psychoanalysis, defining societies as mechanisms for the production and distribution of hope. He argues that the rise of paranoid nationalism throughout the world is linked to the shrinking of western nation-states' ability to distribute hope among their citizens. Neo-liberal policies have loosen social bonds, diminish our hopes for a better life and make us anxious and worried.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1087739 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-24
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 188 pages

Review
"We need books like this. Whether he is writing about hope, the dispossession of indigenous peoples, collective responsibility, national identity and what it means to be an immigrant, or suicide bombers, Ghassan Hage makes one think hard. Speaking for myself, he has exposed assumptions I did not know I held and enabled me to appreciate possibilities I had not seen before. In a voice distinctively his own Hage speaks in many tones - analytical, polemical, caustic, ironic, compassionate. Few writers engage so uncompromisingly the whole of oneself." Raimond Gaita, Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of London, King's College.

About the Author
Ghassan Hage teaches anthropology at the University of Sydney and is fast becoming one of Australia's most controversial public intellectuals. He has an international reputation, teaching at Pierre Bourdieu's Centre de Sociologie Europeenne, Paris, and elsewhere. His previous books include White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society, The Future of Multiculturalism, and Home/World.