Dipesh Chakrabarty Provincializing Europe

postcolonial thought and historical difference

"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...

Engels | 301 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford | 2008

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