Bruce Robbins: Response to Akeel Bilgrami

Bruce Robbins is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. [Colin Jager’s response, which Bruce Robbins’s piece refers to, can be found here.] I’m grateful to Colin Jager for attaching this renewal of the “Occidentialism” conversation immediately and firmly to the upcoming election. Akeel Bilgrami’s Critical Inquiry article (Spring 2006) suggested that the…