Bruce Robbins

In their eyes the underpaid, downtrodden English worker is himself an exploiter.' Orwell ... Orwell recognised that, at a global scale, underpaid and downtrodden English workers were exploiters. ... Bruce Robbins is the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in Humanities at Columbia University in New York.

His 1960 thesis, published in English as Madness and Civilization, was celebrated by many but largely ignored by the French left. How the line between sanity and insanity was drawn had not (yet) become a leftist issue.12. This neglect wounded Foucault deeply. As he broadened his scope to other ...

Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor of the Humanities, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University. His books includeThe Beneficiary (2017); Cosmopolitanisms (2017); Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence(2012), a collection ...

Columbia University professor of English Bruce Robbins pointed out during a talk in 2014 at St. Mark's Bookshop in New York that, in the aftermath of 9/11, universities were among the only spaces in a shell-shocked country were people could hold open discussion and debate without having to pepper their ...

A year or so later, he was expelled for “democratic deviations,” including his refusal to treat Western social democracy as the moral equivalent of Nazism. He got a job with a Jewish newspaper in Poland and, in April 1939, was sent off to London, where he set about learning English. The move saved his life: ...

Cary Nelson, a professor emeritus of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who has vocally opposed BDS, also criticized ACTA's ... Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and a leader of the ultimately unsuccessful BDS effort within ...

In the late 1980s and early '90s, defending intellectuals often seemed to entail idealizing them out of existence. People at that time argued over the proposition that the public intellectual was becoming an extinct species. According to Russell Jacoby's The Last Intellectuals, which appeared in 1987, these ...

WALTER BENJAMIN famously imagined the angel of history, wings spread, propelled backward into the future by an irresistible, all-annihilating wind. “Where we perceive a chain of events,” Benjamin wrote, the angel “sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage on wreckage.” The angel can ...

English professor Bruce Robbins, another signatory, compared CUAD's campaign to efforts in the 1970s and '80s pushing for divestment from apartheid-era South Africa, noting that many opponents labeled these efforts as "too radical" at the time. "I have also seen what it's like for Palestinians on the West ...

In a recent essay titled “The Logic of the Beneficiary,” my Columbia colleague English professor Bruce Robbins, wreathes the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement with laurel leaves, but while making a spotty argument he does succeed in clarifying some of what's at stake. Robbins notes that ...

'We are the 99 per cent!' Many of us who have applauded those stirring words, beginning with the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011, knew that the number was not precise, and was never intended to be. The slogan did not arise because someone calculated that 99 per cent was more accurate than 92 ...

His 1960 thesis, published in English as Madness and Civilization, was celebrated by many but largely ignored by the French left. How the line between sanity and insanity was drawn had not (yet) become a leftist issue.12. This neglect wounded Foucault deeply. As he broadened his scope to other ...

Bruce Robbins is Old Dominion Foundation Professor of the Humanities, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University. His books includeThe Beneficiary (2017); Cosmopolitanisms (2017); Perpetual War: Cosmopolitanism from the Viewpoint of Violence(2012), a collection ...

Columbia University professor of English Bruce Robbins pointed out during a talk in 2014 at St. Mark's Bookshop in New York that, in the aftermath of 9/11, universities were among the only spaces in a shell-shocked country were people could hold open discussion and debate without having to pepper their ...

A year or so later, he was expelled for “democratic deviations,” including his refusal to treat Western social democracy as the moral equivalent of Nazism. He got a job with a Jewish newspaper in Poland and, in April 1939, was sent off to London, where he set about learning English. The move saved his life: ...

Cary Nelson, a professor emeritus of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who has vocally opposed BDS, also criticized ACTA's ... Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and a leader of the ultimately unsuccessful BDS effort within ...

As Columbia English professor Bruce Robbins pointed out in a recent op-ed in the Columbia Daily Spectator, Columbia is joining the ranks of corporations like Volkswagen, IBM and Walmart, all of whom have extended massive amounts of money into hiring law firms in order to break up unionization efforts.

In the late 1980s and early '90s, defending intellectuals often seemed to entail idealizing them out of existence. People at that time argued over the proposition that the public intellectual was becoming an extinct species. According to Russell Jacoby's The Last Intellectuals, which appeared in 1987, these ...

English professor Bruce Robbins, another signatory, compared CUAD's campaign to efforts in the 1970s and '80s pushing for divestment from apartheid-era South Africa, noting that many opponents labeled these efforts as "too radical" at the time. "I have also seen what it's like for Palestinians on the West ...

In a recent essay titled “The Logic of the Beneficiary,” my Columbia colleague English professor Bruce Robbins, wreathes the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement with laurel leaves, but while making a spotty argument he does succeed in clarifying some of what's at stake. Robbins notes that ...

Johnny Eric Williams, a tenured professor of sociology at Trinity College, ... Columbia University professor of English Bruce Robbins pointed out ...

In May of 1965, two years before his sudden death from a heart attack, Isaac Deutscher addressed a mammoth antiwar rally in Berkeley, ...

Cary Nelson, a professor emeritus of English at the University of Illinois at ... Bruce Robbins, Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the ...

At the n+1 website Bruce Robbins, a critic and professor of English at Columbia University in New York, remembers Berger's eclectic Marxism ...

As Columbia English professor Bruce Robbins pointed out in a recent op-ed in the Columbia Daily Spectator, Columbia is joining the ranks of ...

By Bruce Robbins .... E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class—failed to realize these hopes in the 20th century by becoming ...

THE DISINTEGRATING MARRIAGE PLOT has shown up at least once or twice before: having long been fed a steady diet of novels about ...

WALTER BENJAMIN famously imagined the angel of history, wings spread, propelled backward into the future by an irresistible, all-annihilating ...

In a recent essay titled “The Logic of the Beneficiary,” my Columbia colleague English professor Bruce Robbins, wreathes the boycott, ...

Cary Nelson, a professor emeritus of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who has vocally opposed BDS, also criticized ACTA's recommendations, saying via email that they "cross the line in themselves threatening academic freedom ...

Posters with the event's information were defaced or torn down all over campus, and the director's display inside the Center was disturbed as well.

Gabriel Noah Brahm, associate professor of English at Northern Michigan University and a vocal member of the "Scholars Rights" group, exposes how opposition to the academic boycott of Israel goes hand in hand with retrograde understandings of the ...

Gabriel Noah Brahm, associate professor of English at Northern Michigan University and a vocal member of the "Scholars Rights" group, exposes how opposition to the academic boycott of Israel goes hand in hand with retrograde understandings of the ...

As Columbia English professor Bruce Robbins pointed out in a recent op-ed in the Columbia Daily Spectator, Columbia is joining the ranks of corporations like Volkswagen, IBM and Walmart, all of whom have extended massive amounts of money into hiring ...

The most heavily represented departments among the signers are Middle Eastern South Asian and Africa studies, or MESAAS, English and comparative literature, and anthropology. Partha Chatterjee, an anthropology and MESAAS professor at the Ivy ...

English professor Bruce Robbins, another signatory, compared CUAD's campaign to efforts in the 1970s and '80s pushing for divestment from apartheid-era South Africa, noting that many opponents labeled these efforts as "too radical" at the time.

In a recent essay titled "The Logic of the Beneficiary," my Columbia colleague English professor Bruce Robbins, wreathes the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement with laurel leaves, but while making a spotty argument he does succeed in ...