|
|
Product Description
First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, is built into the social sciences. The very idea of historicizing carries with it some peculiarly European assumptions about disenchanted space, secular time, and sovereignty. Measured against such mythical standards, capitalist transition in the third world has often seemed either incomplete or lacking. Provincializing Europe proposes that every case of transition to capitalism is a case of translation as well--a translation of existing worlds and their thought--categories into the categories and self-understandings of capitalist modernity. Now featuring a new preface in which Chakrabarty responds to his critics, this book globalizes European thought by exploring how it may be renewed both for and from the margins.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
- Orientalism
- Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, 20th Anniversary Edition
- The Making of the English Working Class
- The Return of Martin Guerre
- Writing History in the Global Era
- The Wretched of the Earth
- That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession (Ideas in Context)
- Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
- On the Postcolony (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)
*If this is not the "Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition (Princeton Stud" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link
.
Details were last updated on Nov 15, 2024 04:23 +08.
