The Crises of Civilization
Exploring Global and Planetary Histories
Publisher: OUP India
Date of Publication: 14 February 2019
Number of Volumes: Hardback
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| ISBN13: | 9780199486731 |
| ISBN10: | 0199486735 |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| No. of pages: | 321 pages |
| Size: | 225x148x23 mm |
| Language: | English |
| Illustrations: | NA |
| 187 |
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Short description:
After the murderous twentieth century and the long twilight of the European empires, humanity has confronted both a crisis of globalization and a crisis of climate. This book explores the challenges posed by colonialism's end, globalization, and climate change to our ideas of civilization, history, justice, nature, and humanity itself.
Long description:
Societies that have long wrestled with the legacies of colonialism now confront both a crisis of globalization and a crisis of climate. This collection of essays by a leading scholar of postcolonial studies and environmental humanities examines these distinct - but interrelated - crises side by side. The first series of essays, 'Global Worlds', details how varied ideas of civilization and humanism have shaped ideas about a global humanity in the lingering twilight of the European empires - and outlines the conflicts and connections that arise from global encounters in our postcolonial age. The essays of 'The Planetary Human' explore the significance of planetary climate change for humanistic and postcolonial thought. The crisis of climate change demands not only critiques of capitalism and inequality, but also new thinking about the human species as a whole -- and about our patterns of justice, our writing of history, and our relationship with nature in the age of the Anthropocene.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Communing with Magpies
I. Global Worlds
1. Belatedness As Possibility: The Subaltern Subject
and the Problem of Repetition in World History
2. Can Political Economy be Postcolonial? A Note
3. An Anti-Colonial History of Postcolonial Thought
A Tribute to Greg Dening
4. From Civilization to Globalization:
The 'West' as A Shifting Signifier in Indian Modernity
5. Friendships in the Shadow of Empire:
Tagore's Reception in Chicago, c. 1913-1932
6. Romantic Archives:
Literature and the Politics of Identity in Bengal
7. Reading Fanon: What Use is Utopian Thought?
II. The Planetary Human
8. The Climate of History: Four Theses
9. On Some Rifts in Contemporary Thinking on Climate Change
10. Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change
11. Interview: Dipesh Chakrabarty with Actuel Marx
12. Interview: Dipesh Chakrabarty with Katrin Klingan
Select Bibliography of Published Works
Index
About the Author
Introduction
Communing with Magpies
I. Global Worlds
1. Belatedness As Possibility: The Subaltern Subject
and the Problem of Repetition in World History
2. Can Political Economy be Postcolonial? A Note
3. An Anti-Colonial History of Postcolonial Thought
A Tribute to Greg Dening
4. From Civilization to Globalization:
The 'West' as A Shifting Signifier in Indian Modernity
5. Friendships in the Shadow of Empire:
Tagore's Reception in Chicago, c. 1913-1932
6. Romantic Archives:
Literature and the Politics of Identity in Bengal
7. Reading Fanon: What Use is Utopian Thought?
II. The Planetary Human
8. The Climate of History: Four Theses
9. On Some Rifts in Contemporary Thinking on Climate Change
10. Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change
11. Interview: Dipesh Chakrabarty with Actuel Marx
12. Interview: Dipesh Chakrabarty with Katrin Klingan
Select Bibliography of Published Works
Index
About the Author
