Provincializing Europe
Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Publishing:6th Apr '27
£20.00
This title is due to be published on 6th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A foundational work that puts Western understandings of history into conversation with postcolonial perspectives
Can European thought be dislodged from the center of the practice of history in a non-European place? What problems arise when we translate cultural practices into the categories of social science? In this landmark book, Dipesh Chakrabarty examines how postcolonial thinking impacts on the social sciences. Through a series of linked essays, he explores the problems of thought that present themselves when we think of a place such as India through the categories of modern European social science and history. Now with a new preface by the author, Provincializing Europe 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
"The great value of this book lies in Chakrabarty's exceptional ability to bring to light what constantly gets glossed over and forgotten when we can only speak the standard languages of the academy. To do this requires the kind of bilingual consciousness which can bring into illuminating relation Adam Smith and Tagore. Chakrabarty makes you regret that so few are capable of doing this with a high degree of eloquence and insight."---Charles Taylor, IWM Newsletter
"This masterful re-examination of rationality, universality, and difference in the postcolonial world should prove inspiring for serious historians of all lands."---Alice Ballard, Theory and Society
ISBN: 9780691299358
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336 pages