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The Alliance of Independent Publishers, a literary organization ""dedicated to a different kind of globalization"" and the Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation have invited Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House (China), Arab Cultural Center (Morocco and Lebanon), Double Storey Book (South Africa), Sage India (India), Editions La Decouverte (France), and Other Press (United States) to participate in the creation of an unprecedented intercultural project. Entitled Keywords, this original and international experiment is divided into four concise volumes. Each one refers specifically to a word that is key to the understanding of the human condition. Truth, Identity, Gender, and Experience are concepts that we presume universal; therefore we would be hard-pressed to think that they refer to different systems of thought in cultures distinct from our own. Keywords explores the cultural specificity of these terms, and links them to issues that are most relevant for the region under consideration. Each volume of the series offers six different points of view on a given keyword. The authors, who have been carefully selected by their respective publishers for their mastery in their fields and for the clarity of their writing, have been given free reign to share their distinctive visions of the concept at hand and to emphasize particular examples that would best illustrate their unique perspectives. The variety of the authors' backgrounds (anthropology, philosophy, sociology, epistemology) and their commitment to making Keywords relevant in the explosive ""here and now"" offer new parameters for envisioning the implications of the process of globalization. This project is required reading for anyone who aspires to become an informed citizen of the world. Keywords will be published in its entirety in 2004 by Other Press. The series will be brought out simultaneously by the other five participating publishers in the languages native to their territories. Each essay was written originally for this series and has never before been published.

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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).

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