While we — those in the West, particularly on the left — might criticize the oppressions of neo-imperialism, we also benefit from them. That is the quandary that Bruce Robbins confronts in his recent book,The Beneficiary (Duke University Press, 2017), which looks at capitalism and global inequality, drawing on critics from George Orwell to Naomi Klein. It extends Robbins's thinking about cosmopolitanism and our bearing in the world. Over his career, Robbins has explored these and other questions, of politics and literature, intellectuals and class, the public and the professional.
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