Provincializing Europe : Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (New Edition)
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 lackin
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1 online resource (331 pages)
9781400828654, 1400828651
1004486338
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to the 2007 Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Idea of Provincializing Europe; PART ONE: HISTORICISM AND THE NARRATION OF MODERNITY; Chapter 1. Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History; Chapter 2. The Two Histories of Capital; Chapter 3. Translating Life-Worlds into Labor and History; Chapter 4. Minority Histories, Subaltern Pasts; PART TWO: HISTORIES OF BELONGING; Chapter 5. Domestic Cruelty and the Birth of the Subject; Chapter 6. Nation and Imagination; Chapter 7. Adda: A History of Sociality. Chapter 8. Family, Fraternity, and Salaried LaborEpilogue. Reason and the Critique of Historicism; Notes; Index