Look At Situations As Contingent, Not As

I Take Criticism So Seriously As To Believe That, Even In The Midst Of A Battle In Which One Is Unmistakably On One Side Against Another, There Should Be Criticism, Because There Must Be Critical Consciousness If There Are To Be Issues, Problems, Values, Even Lives To Be Fought For... Criticism Must Think Of Itself As Life-enhancing And Constitutively Opposed To Every Form Of Tyranny, Domination, And Abuse; Its Social Goals Are Noncoercive Knowledge Produced In The Interests Of Human Freedom.

In The Islamic World, The U.s. Is Seen In Two Quite Different Ways. One View Recognizes What An Extraordinary Country The U.s. Is. Every Arab Or Muslim That I Know Is Tremendously Interested In The United States. Many Of Them Send Their Children Here For Education. Many Of Them Come Here For Vacations. They Do Business Here Or Get Their Training Here. The Other View Is Of The Official United States, The United States Of Armies And Interventions.

All Knowledge That Is About Human Society, And Not About The Natural World, Is Historical Knowledge, And Therefore Rests Upon Judgment And Interpretation. This Is Not To Say That Facts Or Data Are Nonexistent, But That Facts Get Their Importance From What Is Made Of Them In Interpretation… For Interpretations Depend Very Much On Who The Interpreter Is, Who He Or She Is Addressing, What His Or Her Purpose Is, At What Historical Moment The Interpretation Takes Place.

And In This Relentlessly Unfolding Series Of Interactions, The U.s. Has Played A Very Distinctive Role, Which Most Americans Have Been Either Shielded From Or Simply Unaware Of.

Density, Complexity, And Historical-semantic Value That Is So Strong As To Make Politics Possible... Gramsci's Insight Is To Have Recognised That Subordination, Fracturing, Diffusion, Reproducing, As Much As Producing, Creating, Forcing, Guiding, Are Necessary Aspects Of Elaboration.