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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Page 12
... process and condition. That is to say, on offer is an understanding of modernity as acutely construed by social-spatial/disciplinary subjects and as crucially defined by heterogeneous-coeval hierarchically ordered temporalities. As we ...
... process and condition. That is to say, on offer is an understanding of modernity as acutely construed by social-spatial/disciplinary subjects and as crucially defined by heterogeneous-coeval hierarchically ordered temporalities. As we ...
Page 13
... processes of 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 ...
... processes of 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 ...
Page 15
... processes. Here are to be found entangled procedures of empire and Enlightenment, race and reason, colony and nation, history and community, power and meaning, and authority and alterity, which stretch across while they equally construe ...
... processes. Here are to be found entangled procedures of empire and Enlightenment, race and reason, colony and nation, history and community, power and meaning, and authority and alterity, which stretch across while they equally construe ...
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... processes, but also subjects of (themselves shaping) these processes.8 Unsurprisingly, these temporal/spatial subjects have registered within their measures and meanings the formative contradictions, contentions, and contingencies of ...
... processes, but also subjects of (themselves shaping) these processes.8 Unsurprisingly, these temporal/spatial subjects have registered within their measures and meanings the formative contradictions, contentions, and contingencies of ...
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... processes. On the other, I track the active construal, the exact production, of space and time within the epistemic practice of these critical perspectives. Chapter 3 draws on social theory, political philosophy, and other 22 | SUBJECTS ...
... processes. On the other, I track the active construal, the exact production, of space and time within the epistemic practice of these critical perspectives. Chapter 3 draws on social theory, political philosophy, and other 22 | SUBJECTS ...
Contents
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v | |
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31 | |
antinomies and enticements | 57 |
entanglements and ambiguities | 91 |
identities and incitements | 119 |
an epilogue | 139 |
Bibliography | 153 |
Index | 175 |
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