'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 historicising 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 globalises European thought by exploring how it may be renewed both for and from the margins.' - from the back cover

With bibliography and index.

Access level

Onsite

Location code
REF.CHD2
Language

English

Publication/Creation date

2007

Edition

2

No of pages

336

ISBN / ISSN

9780691130019

No of copies

1

Content type

monograph

Chapter headings

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 Labour 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 Labour

Epilogue. Reason and the Critique of Historicism

Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
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