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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... meaning-legislating rationality, critiques that have thought through the dualisms of Western thought and post-Enlightenment traditions. On the other, critical discussions of cultures and pasts have equally challenged the analytical ...
... meaning-legislating rationality, critiques that have thought through the dualisms of Western thought and post-Enlightenment traditions. On the other, critical discussions of cultures and pasts have equally challenged the analytical ...
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... meaning and mastery in their sedimentation, formation, and elaboration. It follows, too, that questions of modernity today increasingly often escape the limits of sociological formalism and exceed the binds of a priori abstraction ...
... meaning and mastery in their sedimentation, formation, and elaboration. It follows, too, that questions of modernity today increasingly often escape the limits of sociological formalism and exceed the binds of a priori abstraction ...
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... meaning, and authority and alterity, which stretch across while they equally construe continents and epochs, space and time. Finally, the thematic fabrics and critical motifs outlined above are unravelled and sutured through ...
... meaning, and authority and alterity, which stretch across while they equally construe continents and epochs, space and time. Finally, the thematic fabrics and critical motifs outlined above are unravelled and sutured through ...
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... meanings the formative contradictions, contentions, and contingencies of modernity. Clearly, these propositions rescue modernity and its subjects from their ready conflations with exclusive images of the (Euro-American, often male) ...
... meanings the formative contradictions, contentions, and contingencies of modernity. Clearly, these propositions rescue modernity and its subjects from their ready conflations with exclusive images of the (Euro-American, often male) ...
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... meanings and practices of spatial/temporal/disciplinary subjects of modernity as key coordinates that shore up our worlds. Lastly, the study is premised upon the recognition that the practices and meanings under discussion demand not ...
... meanings and practices of spatial/temporal/disciplinary subjects of modernity as key coordinates that shore up our worlds. Lastly, the study is premised upon the recognition that the practices and meanings under discussion demand not ...
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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