Provincializing Europe
Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
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Product details:
- Edition number New Edition, Revised
- Publisher Princeton University Press
- Date of Publication 18 November 2007
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9780691130019
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages330 pages
- Size 234x152 mm
- Weight 471 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 3 line illus. 720
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Short description:
Theorie und Gesellschaft
Als Mitbegr?nder der "Subaltern Studies" ist der indische Historiker Dipesh Chakrabarty einer der Vorreiter der postkolonialen Geschichtsschreibung. Seine einflussreichen Schriften umfassen ein breites Spektrum, das von der Geschichte der Arbeiterklasse bis zur Herausbildung einer Mittelschicht im kolonialen Indien reicht, aber auch die Geschichte der indigenen V?lker Australiens und globale Risiken wie die Klimakatastrophe umfasst. Mit seinen Arbeiten hat Chakrabarty au?erdem wesentlich zu einer Kritik des Eurozentrismus in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften beigetragen, zugleich aber auch auf die Schwierigkeiten, diesen zu ?berwinden, hingewiesen. Seine Studien verdeutlichen die Grenzen der Anwendung zentraler Kategorien der europ?ischen Moderne, wie Aufkl?rung und S?kularisation, f?r eine Analyse nicht westlicher Gesellschaften. Sein Werk ist in mehrere Sprachen ?bersetzt und weit ?ber die Fachgrenzen der Geschichte hinaus rezipiert worden. Die in diesem Buch versammelten Aufs?tze geben erstmals in deutscher ?bersetzung einen ?berblick ?ber die wichtigsten Thesen und Forschungen von Dipesh Chakrabarty.
Long 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.
"Chakrabarty's work gives us a richer, more penetrating language to deal with modernity and the colonial encounter. . . . It is the ambiguity of Chakabarty's own position as both a critic and archivist of modernity that gives his study its poetic undertow and its intelligent irresponsibility."---Amit Chaudhuri, London Review of Books More
