{"product_id":"a-political-writing-paperback","title":"A political writing - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeremy Fernando\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection is an overt rejection of the maxim \u003cem\u003eeverything is political \u003c\/em\u003eas one that reduces both things and politics to each other. Rather, it attempts to meditate on the possibilities of both things and \u003cem\u003epoli \u003c\/em\u003ethrough meanderings into various forms, including essays, creative-critical pieces, prose-poems, and thinking-fictions: and it posits that these possibilities appear to us as encounters between ourselves and works, other people, the worlds in which we live; bearing in mind that such moments cannot be known a \u003cem\u003epriori\u003c\/em\u003e, can at best be felt, intuited, as they are happening, often remain hidden from us even after they have taken place, returning as ghostly-traces... to be read.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJeremy Fernando's political vision is incisive, inventive, and insidious.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Neil Murphy, Professor of English \u0026amp; Toh Puan Mahani Idris Daim Chair Professor, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNanyang Technological University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWith characteristic flamboyance and slyness and verve, Jeremy Fernando has produced a political theory of Singapore that may properly be called, i.e., that in some sense invents or reinvents, Singaporean Political Theory. How, the book seems to cry, suppose you could know anything at all about the political if you have not first missed understanding Singapore?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ira Allen, Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Northern Arizona University, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eauthor of \u003cem\u003ePanic Now? Tools for Humanizing, The Ethical Fantasy of Rhetorical Theory\u003c\/em\u003e, and sundry other works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 282\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51890129568032,"sku":"9798991394277","price":37.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/IhmGbT8iol9798991394277.webp?v=1781943020","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/a-political-writing-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}