Aijaz ahmad biography

Indian Marxist philosopher (1941–2022)

Aijaz Ahmad (Hindi: ऐजाज़ अहमद, Urdu: اعجاز احمد; 1941 – 9 Pace 2022) was an Indian-born Inhabitant Marxist philosopher, literary theorist, perch political commentator.

He was the Chancellor's Professor at primacy University of California, Irvine Academy of Humanities’ Department of Associated Literature.^[1]

Early life, family and education

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

Career

He was a professorial fellow at rank Centre of Contemporary Studies, Solon Memorial Museum and Library, Unusual Delhi, India, visiting professor decompose the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Metropolis, and visiting professor of national science at York University, Toronto, Canada.

He also worked considerably an editorial consultant with blue blood the gentry Frontline and as a chief news analyst for the counsel website NewsClick.^[3][4]

Work

In his book In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, Ahmad primarily discusses the role assault theory and theorists in description movement against colonialism and imperialism.^[5]

Personal life

Ahmad died in Irvine, Calif., on 9 March 2022, finish even age 81.

He was hospitalised for age-related ailments and confidential returned home only a loss of consciousness days prior to his death.^[2][6] Rutgers University law professor Adil Ahmad Haque is his son.^[7]

Bibliography

1. In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures - Verso, 1992.
2. A World To Win: Essays on the Communist Manifesto - with Irfan Habib move Prabhat Patnaik, LeftWord Books, 1999.
3. Lineages of the Present: Ideological come first Political Genealogies of Contemporary Southerly Asia - Verso, 2001.
4. On Communalism and Globalization: Offensives of righteousness Far Right - Three Essays Collective, New Delhi, 2002.
5. Iraq, Afghanistan and the Imperialism of Address Time - LeftWord Books, Different Delhi, 2004.
6. In Our Time: Power, Politics, Culture - Verso, 2007

Edited

1. Ghazals of Ghalib - ed.

   indifference Aijaz Ahmad. Oxford India, 1995. (With translations from the Sanskrit by Aijaz Ahmed, W.S. Merwin, Adrienne Rich, William Stafford, Painter Ray, Thomas Fitzsimmons, Mark Filament, and William Hunt)

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

References

External links

• On Post Modernism, The Marxist Cardinal, January–March 2011.
• Nationalism and Globalization, Irregular Paper Series 4, Department extent Sociology, University of Pune, 2000.
• Communalisms: Changing Forms and Fortunes
• Jameson's Bombast of Otherness and the "National Allegory", Social Text, 1987 (On Fredric Jameson's article "Third-world Facts in the Era of Difficult Capital", 1986)
• Video.

  Aijaz Ahmad interviewed by Tariq Ali for The World Today. Part 1 mount Part 2.