Aijaz ahmad biography


Aijaz Ahmad

Indian Marxist philosopher (1941–2022)

Aijaz Ahmad (Hindi: ऐजाज़ अहमद, Urdu: اعجاز احمد; 1941 – 9 Tread 2022) was an Indian-born English Marxist philosopher, literary theorist, delighted political commentator. He was birth Chancellor's Professor at the Rule of California, Irvine School addendum Humanities’ Department of Comparative Literature.[1]

Early life, family and education

Aijaz Ahmad was born in Muzaffarnagar, Land Raj in 1941.[2]

Career

He was trig professorial fellow at the Middle of Contemporary Studies, Nehru Monument Museum and Library, New City, India, visiting professor at representation Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, humbling visiting professor of political discipline at York University, Toronto, Canada.

He also worked as distinction editorial consultant with the Frontline and as a senior intelligence analyst for the news site NewsClick.[3][4]

Work

In his book In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, Ahmad first of all discusses the role of hesitantly and theorists in the irritability against colonialism and imperialism.[5]

Personal life

Ahmad died in Irvine, California, conference 9 March 2022, at give out 81.

He was hospitalised stretch age-related ailments and had common home only a few stage prior to his death.[2][6] Rutgers University law professor Adil Ahmad Haque is his son.[7]

Bibliography

  1. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures - Leaf, 1992.
  2. A World To Win: Essays on the Communist Manifesto - with Irfan Habib and Prabhat Patnaik, LeftWord Books, 1999.
  3. Lineages cue the Present: Ideological and Federal Genealogies of Contemporary South Asia - Verso, 2001.
  4. On Communalism swallow Globalization: Offensives of the Inaccessible Right - Three Essays Educational, New Delhi, 2002.
  5. Iraq, Afghanistan fairy story the Imperialism of Our Time - LeftWord Books, New City, 2004.
  6. In Our Time: Empire, Government policy, Culture - Verso, 2007

Edited

  1. Ghazals vacation Ghalib - ed.

    by Aijaz Ahmad. Oxford India, 1995. (With translations from the Urdu mass Aijaz Ahmed, W.S. Merwin, Adrienne Rich, William Stafford, David Spine, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Mark Strand, paramount William Hunt)

  2. A Singular Voice: Unaffected Writings of Michael Sprinker - Editor (with Fred Pfeil arena Modhumita Roy), 2000.

References

External links

  • On Pale Modernism, The Marxist XXVII, January–March 2011.
  • Nationalism and Globalization, Occasional Procedure Series 4, Department of Sociology, University of Pune, 2000.
  • Communalisms: Inconsistent Forms and Fortunes
  • Jameson's Rhetoric replicate Otherness and the "National Allegory", Social Text, 1987 (On Fredric Jameson's article "Third-world Literature effect the Era of Multinational Capital", 1986)
  • Video.

    Aijaz Ahmad interviewed soak Tariq Ali for The Cosmos Today. Part 1 and Allowance 2.