Provincializing Europe

Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition Wydawca: Princeton University Press Opis produktu 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. Specyfikacja SKU: PRIN003373859 EAN: 9780691130019 Waga: 472 g Author: Chakrabarty, Dipesh Binding: Paperback Pages: 330 Publication Year: 2007 BISAC Category 1: HIS016000 BISAC Category 2: HIS037000 BISAC Category 3: HIS010000