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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... tradition of Institutes for Advanced Study across the globe. It distinguished itself by encompassing all disciplines from the natural to the social sciences and humanities (with a particular emphasis on research grounded in multi ...
... tradition of Institutes for Advanced Study across the globe. It distinguished itself by encompassing all disciplines from the natural to the social sciences and humanities (with a particular emphasis on research grounded in multi ...
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... tradition sensitive to the voices in need of amplification. Subjects of Modernity takes on the disciplinary mappings ... traditions of postcolonial thought, subaltern studies, and historical anthropology – and the artistic reflections of ...
... tradition sensitive to the voices in need of amplification. Subjects of Modernity takes on the disciplinary mappings ... traditions of postcolonial thought, subaltern studies, and historical anthropology – and the artistic reflections of ...
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... traditions – most of which I draw upon as well as question. (Polemic has never been my strong point and, besides, it has little place in the sort of work that I do.) However, this book adopts a particular tack in its style of argument ...
... traditions – most of which I draw upon as well as question. (Polemic has never been my strong point and, besides, it has little place in the sort of work that I do.) However, this book adopts a particular tack in its style of argument ...
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... tradition and modernity, ritual and rationality, myth and history, and East and West – that have shaped influential ... traditions. On the other, critical discussions of cultures and pasts have equally challenged the analytical ...
... tradition and modernity, ritual and rationality, myth and history, and East and West – that have shaped influential ... traditions. On the other, critical discussions of cultures and pasts have equally challenged the analytical ...
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... tradition, and difference with projections of state, West, modernity, and power. On the one hand, these presumptions reveal linkages with enduring oppositions between “enchanted spaces” and “modern places,” which themselves rest upon ...
... tradition, and difference with projections of state, West, modernity, and power. On the one hand, these presumptions reveal linkages with enduring oppositions between “enchanted spaces” and “modern places,” which themselves rest upon ...
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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