Subjects of Modernity: Time-space, disciplines, margins"e;Dube ranges widely and globally - from histories of empires and genealogies of disciplines to recent Dalit artwork from India - to explore and carefully delineate a tension he regards as fundamental to the formation of the modern: the modern subject's inevitable entanglement with those subject to modernity. A tour de force, this book offers a critical, timely and powerful sequel to postcolonial and subaltern studies."e; - Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago |
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... articulations and discrete representations of the modern and modernity, which have structured and sutured empire, nation, and globalisation. As a result, modernity/modernities have 12 | SUBJECTS OF MODERNITY Primary matters.
... articulations and discrete representations of the modern and modernity, which have structured and sutured empire, nation, and globalisation. As a result, modernity/modernities have 12 | SUBJECTS OF MODERNITY Primary matters.
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... articulations of time/space – turning on “culture” and “tradition” – in formations of history, anthropology, and historical anthropology. On offer are intellectual articulations of hegemonic and critical representations of the temporal ...
... articulations of time/space – turning on “culture” and “tradition” – in formations of history, anthropology, and historical anthropology. On offer are intellectual articulations of hegemonic and critical representations of the temporal ...
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... articulations of time-space that shore up disciplinary subjects. On the one hand, I explore the mutual reinforcements of time (in the form of history and temporality) and space (in the guise of tradition and culture) as simultaneously ...
... articulations of time-space that shore up disciplinary subjects. On the one hand, I explore the mutual reinforcements of time (in the form of history and temporality) and space (in the guise of tradition and culture) as simultaneously ...
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... articulation of subjects of modernity can productively widen the range of address of modernity and its participants, not only in an empirical manner but, saliently, in conceptual, critical ways, including the entangled productions of ...
... articulation of subjects of modernity can productively widen the range of address of modernity and its participants, not only in an empirical manner but, saliently, in conceptual, critical ways, including the entangled productions of ...
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... articulation, but also careful affirmation. Such procedures of the simultaneous querying and affirmation of historical/ contemporary worlds and socio-spatial/disciplinary subjects of modernity entwine hermeneutic impulses and critical ...
... articulation, but also careful affirmation. Such procedures of the simultaneous querying and affirmation of historical/ contemporary worlds and socio-spatial/disciplinary subjects of modernity entwine hermeneutic impulses and critical ...
Contents
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antinomies and enticements | 57 |
entanglements and ambiguities | 91 |
identities and incitements | 119 |
an epilogue | 139 |
Bibliography | 153 |
Index | 175 |
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