R. Kanth

The Challenge of Eurocentrism: Global Perspectives, Policy, and Prospects

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Produktbeschreibung

Eurocentrism is the current object of a global critique, which has the potential to be as significant as Marxist and Feminist critiques have been. This critique focuses on and dissects the paradigms that have emanated from the European Enlightenment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-61227-3
• 2009
• Seitenzahl: 259
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 566g
• ISBN-13: 9780230612273
• ISBN-10: 023061227X
• Artikelnr.: 23816188

Autorenporträt

RAJANI KANNEPALLI KANTH is a Visting Fellow at Harvard University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Preface- Rajani K. Kanth and Eurocentrism: A Critique Introduction- The Challenge of Eurocentrism PART I: RECEIVED THEORY, SCIENCE, AND EUROCENTRISM Eurocentric Roots of the Clash of Civilizations: A Perspective from the History of Science Mathematics and Eurocentrism Official Corruption and Poverty: A Challenge to the Eurocentric View PART II: PERSPECTIVES ON AFRICA AND SOUTH& EAST ASIA Economic Development and the Fabrication of the Middle East as a Eurocentric Project The Phantom of Liberty: Mo(der)nism and Postcolonial Imaginations in India Eurocentrism, Modernity, and the Postcolonial Predicament in East Asia PART III: PERSPECTIVES ON WEST ASIA, THE AMERICAS, AND THE WEST Pan-African and Afro-Asian Alternatives [to] and Critiques [of Eurocentrism] On Cultural Bondage: From Eurocentrism to Americocentrism American Myth and The 'Savage Others' What have the Muslims ever done for us? The Islamic Foundations of Western Civilisation 'Eurocentrism: The Next Frontier' Postface: Eurocentrism- Whither Now?

Rezensionen

"An exciting collection of papers on the distortions of Eurocentric analyses, one that points the way forward to more truly universalistic structures of knowledge." - Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scholar, Yale University

"A critique in the proper sense of the term: challenges conventional orthodoxy and provides an alternative, more enlightened world view" - Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History,Harvard University