Habitations of Modernity

Informationen zum Autor Dipesh Chakrabarty is professor of history and of South Asian languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940 and Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference. Klappentext Foreword by Homi K. BhabhaAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One: Questions of History1 A Small History of Subaltern Studies2 Subaltern Histories and Post-Enlightenment Rationalism3 Modernity and the Past: A Critical Tribute to Ashis NandyPart Two: Practices of Modernity4 Khadi and the Political Man5 Of Garbage! Modernity! and the Citizen's Gaze6 Governmental Roots of Modern EthnicityPart Three: The Ethical and the In-Human7 The Subject of Law and the Subject of Narratives8 Memories of Displacement: The Poetry and Prejudice of Dwelling9 The In-Human and the Ethical in Communal ViolenceNotesIndex Zusammenfassung In 'Habitations of modernity' Dipesh Chakrabarty explores the complexities of modernism in India and seeks principles of humaneness grounded in everyday life that may elude grand political theories. These issues are pursued in a series of closely linked cultural essays.

Klappentext
Foreword by Homi K. BhabhaAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One: Questions of History1 A Small History of Subaltern Studies2 Subaltern Histories and Post-Enlightenment Rationalism3 Modernity and the Past: A Critical Tribute to Ashis NandyPart Two: Practices of Modernity4 Khadi and the Political Man5 Of Garbage, Modernity, and the Citizen's Gaze6 Governmental Roots of Modern EthnicityPart Three: The Ethical and the In-Human7 The Subject of Law and the Subject of Narratives8 Memories of Displacement: The Poetry and Prejudice of Dwelling9 The In-Human and the Ethical in Communal ViolenceNotesIndex


Zusammenfassung
In 'Habitations of modernity' Dipesh Chakrabarty explores the complexities of modernism in India and seeks principles of humaneness grounded in everyday life that may elude grand political theories. These issues are pursued in a series of closely linked cultural essays.

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