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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... distinct borderlands and its acknowledgment of the production of time and space by subjects, social and disciplinary, play a crucial role here. To adopt such an apparently oblique, ostensibly elliptical, perspective on modernity is not ...
... distinct borderlands and its acknowledgment of the production of time and space by subjects, social and disciplinary, play a crucial role here. To adopt such an apparently oblique, ostensibly elliptical, perspective on modernity is not ...
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... distinct perspectives in recent decades.1 I indicate three such sets of queries here.2 The first set concerns vigorous challenges to univocal conceptions of universal history under the terms of modernity. Imaginatively exploring distinct ...
... distinct perspectives in recent decades.1 I indicate three such sets of queries here.2 The first set concerns vigorous challenges to univocal conceptions of universal history under the terms of modernity. Imaginatively exploring distinct ...
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... distinct contradictions and contentions of modernity: from the formidable interleaving of analytical and hermeneutic orientations – especially, their competing conceptions of the relationship between knowing/explication and place ...
... distinct contradictions and contentions of modernity: from the formidable interleaving of analytical and hermeneutic orientations – especially, their competing conceptions of the relationship between knowing/explication and place ...
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... distinct perspective on identity, one that holds up a mirror to modernity. Drawing upon historical anthropology, subaltern studies, postcolonial perspectives, and socialpolitical theory, I make a case for the enmeshed productions of ...
... distinct perspective on identity, one that holds up a mirror to modernity. Drawing upon historical anthropology, subaltern studies, postcolonial perspectives, and socialpolitical theory, I make a case for the enmeshed productions of ...
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... distinct registers of subjects of modernity. Arguably, disciplinary formations of modern knowledge often sharply separate academic arenas from everyday worlds. Here, the unsullied arrangements of the former are assumed as readily ...
... distinct registers of subjects of modernity. Arguably, disciplinary formations of modern knowledge often sharply separate academic arenas from everyday worlds. Here, the unsullied arrangements of the former are assumed as readily ...
Contents
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v | |
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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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