{"product_id":"driven-to-their-knees-humiliation-in-contemporary-politics-paperback","title":"Driven to Their Knees: Humiliation in Contemporary Politics - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoxanne L. Euben\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow the rhetoric of humiliation defines the powerful and the powerless in modern politics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHumiliation pervades our politics, from images of stripped Palestinian men in Gaza to mocking chants at MAGA rallies. It suffuses pictures and videos, speaks through bodies as well as words, and is expressed by those with too much power as well as by those with too little. In \u003ci\u003eDriven to Their Knees\u003c\/i\u003e, Roxanne Euben takes readers from conflicts in the Arabic-speaking world to America's divided public square, advancing a theory of humiliation rooted in the ways people articulate and enact it. Euben analyzes some of the most conspicuous yet least studied Arabic expressions of humiliation, drawing on sources ranging from Qurʾānic commentary by Islamists to videos, poetry, songs, and tweets from the 2011 Egyptian revolution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDriven to Their Knees\u003c\/i\u003e reveals what the language of humiliation says--and also how it works. This groundbreaking book shows how humiliation expresses the imposition of impotence by those with undeserved power, and the way it converts relations of power into crises of virility. Humiliation rhetoric defines both the humiliated and the humiliator and issues an urgent call for a remedy in the viscerally charged language of emasculation. For Donald Trump and Usama bin Laden alike, this means driving their enemy to his knees for all to see, and then boasting about it to compound the degradation. But for others, humiliation galvanizes their struggle to \"stand erect,\" uniting them in a refusal to be bowed low. Humiliation is not just about power but is itself a powerful language that does far more than reflect contemporary politics. The language of humiliation remakes the very world in which we live.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoxanne L. Euben\u003c\/b\u003e is the Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include \u003ci\u003eJourneys to the Other Shore: Muslim and Western Travelers in Search of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eEnemy in the Mirror: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Limits of Modern Rationalism\u003c\/i\u003e; and (with Muhammad Qasim Zaman) \u003ci\u003ePrinceton Readings in Islamist Thought: Texts and Contexts from al-Banna to Bin Laden\u003c\/i\u003e (all Princeton).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45519504375910,"sku":"9780691183688","price":51.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/an52gAH1r59780691183688.webp?v=1776437435","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/driven-to-their-knees-humiliation-in-contemporary-politics-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}