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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... and temporality: key protagonists ................................................................ 95 History and culture ...................................................................................................
... and temporality: key protagonists ................................................................ 95 History and culture ...................................................................................................
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... cultural origins of the phenomenon while questioning understandings of “the modern condition” itself. This erudite and beautifully argued book encompasses both elements in its carefully crafted prose and analysis. Subjects of Modernity ...
... cultural origins of the phenomenon while questioning understandings of “the modern condition” itself. This erudite and beautifully argued book encompasses both elements in its carefully crafted prose and analysis. Subjects of Modernity ...
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... cultural entity and category as well as a contingent and contended process and condition. That is to say, on offer is an ... culture(s). On the one hand, such theoretical interventions have derived support from critiques of a subject ...
... cultural entity and category as well as a contingent and contended process and condition. That is to say, on offer is an ... culture(s). On the one hand, such theoretical interventions have derived support from critiques of a subject ...
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... culture and control, as checkered, contested histories of meaning and mastery in their sedimentation, formation, and elaboration. It follows, too, that questions of modernity today increasingly often escape the limits of sociological ...
... culture and control, as checkered, contested histories of meaning and mastery in their sedimentation, formation, and elaboration. It follows, too, that questions of modernity today increasingly often escape the limits of sociological ...
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... cultures, which are seen as succeeding or failing to meet their destiny. Yet historical ruptures also insinuate stubborn knots ... culture) as simultaneously separating yet holding together these knowledge formations, whose disciplinary ...
... cultures, which are seen as succeeding or failing to meet their destiny. Yet historical ruptures also insinuate stubborn knots ... culture) as simultaneously separating yet holding together these knowledge formations, whose disciplinary ...
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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