Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New EditionFirst 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. |
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... theories of democracy advised a two-step program: first educate and thus develop them, and then grant them their citizenly rights. This critical relationship to developmental or stadial history was thus, I claimed, a part of the ...
... Theory 41, no. 3 (2002): 381–391. 6. The “recognition,” writes Gadamer, “that all understanding inevitably involves some prejudice gives the hermeneutic problem its real thrust.” Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method (London: Sheed and ...
... Theory, Knowledge, History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005); Achille Mbembe, On the Postcolony (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001). 19. Paul Stevens, “Heterogenizing Imagination: Globalization, The Merchant ...
... theory of history—ranging from simple evolutionary schemas to sophisticated understandings of “uneven development”—that European political and social thought made room for the political modernity of the subaltern classes. This was not ...
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Contents
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HISTORICISM AND THE NARRATION OF MODERNITY | 25 |
HISTORIES OF BELONGING | 115 |
Epilogue Reason and the Critique of Historicism | 237 |
Notes | 257 |
Index | 299 |
Other editions - View all
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference Dipesh Chakrabarty Limited preview - 2000 |
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference Dipesh Chakrabarty Limited preview - 2008 |