[Reader-list] `Terrorism and the Loss of Politics: Mumbai and After': Talk by Faisal Devji, CSDS, Jan 2, 1530

[Rajesh Ramakrishnan]

*Friday, 2nd January, 2009*


*Programme in Social and Political Theory, CSDS*


*Theorising the Contemporary – Seminar Series*





*Terrorism and the Loss of Politics: Mumbai and After*

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By *Faisal Devji*





at *3:30 PM* in the *Seminar Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi – 110 054*



Faisal Devji is Assistant Professor of History at the New School University.
He has held faculty positions at Yale University and the University of
Chicago, from where he also received his PhD in Intellectual History. Devji
was Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University, and Head of
Graduate Studies at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London, from where
he directed post-graduate courses in the Near East and Central Asia. Faisal
Devji is interested in the political thought of modern Islam as well as in
the transformation of liberal categories and democratic practice in South
Asia. His broader concerns are with ethics and violence in a globalised
world. His publications include *Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy,
Morality, Modernity* (Cornell University Press, 2005) and *The Terrorist in
Search of Humanity: Militant Islam and Global Politics* (Columbia University
Press, 2008).