After the murderous twentieth century and the long twilight of the European empires, humanity has confronted both a crisis of globalization and a crisis of climate. This book explores the challenges posed by colonialism's end, globalization, and climate change to our ideas of civilization, history, justice, nature, and humanity itself.
After the murderous twentieth century and the long twilight of the European empires, humanity has confronted both a crisis of globalization and a crisis of climate. This book explores the challenges posed by colonialism's end, globalization, and climate change to our ideas of civilization, history, justice, nature, and humanity itself.
Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History and South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, US. His books include Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940 (1989), Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (2000), and The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth ( 2015). He is a founding member of the editorial collective Subaltern Studies and a consulting editor of Critical Inquiry. He also holds an honorary D. Litt degree from the University of London (2010), and an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Antwerp (2011). He received the 2014 Toynbee Prize for his contributions to global history and delivered the Tanner Lectures in Human Values at Yale in 2015.
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Preface Introduction Communing with Magpies I. Global Worlds 1. Belatedness As Possibility: The Subaltern Subject and the Problem of Repetition in World History 2. Can Political Economy be Postcolonial? A Note 3. An Anti-Colonial History of Postcolonial Thought A Tribute to Greg Dening 4. From Civilization to Globalization: The 'West' as A Shifting Signifier in Indian Modernity 5. Friendships in the Shadow of Empire: Tagore's Reception in Chicago, c. 1913-1932 6. Romantic Archives: Literature and the Politics of Identity in Bengal 7. Reading Fanon: What Use is Utopian Thought? II. The Planetary Human 8. The Climate of History: Four Theses 9. On Some Rifts in Contemporary Thinking on Climate Change 10. Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change 11. Interview: Dipesh Chakrabarty with Actuel Marx 12. Interview: Dipesh Chakrabarty with Katrin Klingan Select Bibliography of Published Works Index About the Author
Preface Introduction Communing with Magpies I. Global Worlds 1. Belatedness As Possibility: The Subaltern Subject and the Problem of Repetition in World History 2. Can Political Economy be Postcolonial? A Note 3. An Anti-Colonial History of Postcolonial Thought A Tribute to Greg Dening 4. From Civilization to Globalization: The 'West' as A Shifting Signifier in Indian Modernity 5. Friendships in the Shadow of Empire: Tagore's Reception in Chicago, c. 1913-1932 6. Romantic Archives: Literature and the Politics of Identity in Bengal 7. Reading Fanon: What Use is Utopian Thought? II. The Planetary Human 8. The Climate of History: Four Theses 9. On Some Rifts in Contemporary Thinking on Climate Change 10. Postcolonial Studies and the Challenge of Climate Change 11. Interview: Dipesh Chakrabarty with Actuel Marx 12. Interview: Dipesh Chakrabarty with Katrin Klingan Select Bibliography of Published Works Index About the Author
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