From Orientalism to Postcolonialism: Asia, Europe and the Lineages of DifferenceSucheta Mazumdar, Vasant Kaiwar, Thierry Labica Routledge, 2009 - 244 pages This book uses a historical and theoretical focus to examine the key of issues of the Enlightenment, Orientalism, concepts of identity and difference, and the contours of different modernities in relation to both local and global shaping forces, including the spread of capitalism. The contributors present eight in-depth studies and a substantial theoretical introduction, utilizing primary and secondary sources in Turkish, Farsi, Chinese, not to mention English, French and German in the effort to engage materials and cultural perspectives from diverse regions. It provides a critical attempt to think through the potentialities and limitations of area-studies and âe~civilizationalâe(tm) approaches to the production of knowledge about the modern world, and the often obscured relationship between the fragment and the whole, or the particular and universal. The book is an intervention in one of the most fundamental debates confronting the social science and humanities, namely how to understand global and local historical processes as interconnected developments affecting human actors. From Orientalism to Postcolonialism will be of interest to academics and postgraduate students in Cultural and Postcolonial Studies and Asian studies and Middle Eastern studies. |
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... scholars throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . Analyzing as a case study the genesis of the sociology of India in a specific national and historical set- ting and introducing a comparative view point , allows us to break ...
... scholars , spent a year in Germany at the end of the nineteenth century and were not ignorant of the development of the social sciences in that country . In defence of the French scholars , one must say that Max Weber was not an ...
... scholars was due to the fact that in Ancient India , as in pre - modern Europe , theology was not sepa- rated from philosophy . Considering Brahmanism , and not Hinduism in gen- eral , the French scholars claimed that the Brahmans , as ...
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Reflections on the Universal | 19 |
Politics of the Civilizational | 43 |
French Sociology of India in | 85 |
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