Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital - Rilegato

Chibber, Vivek

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ISBN 10: 1844679772 ISBN 13: 9781844679775

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 2013

Riassunto

In recent years, postcolonial theory has emerged as the most influential scholarly explanation for the historical trajectory and social anatomy of the Global South. Its leading proponents—many of whom have become academic superstars—not only reject Enlightenment political and economic theories, especially Marxism, but accuse them of complicity in Europe’s imperial project.

In this devastating critique, Vivek Chibber offers the most comprehensive response yet to postcolonial theory mounted on behalf of the Enlightenment tradition. Focusing on the hugely popular Subaltern Studies project, Chibber carefully examines this project’s core arguments about the specificity of the Global South and the deficiencies of Western thought. He unearths a series of misconceptions, including a flawed understanding of Europe’s “bourgeois” revolutions and of capitalism’s “universalizing” tendency. Once the real history of capital’s universalization is reconstructed, aspects of modernity that appear to be unique to the South turn out to be shared with the North—and the history of the Global South can be explained by the very theories that postcolonial theorists urge us to reject.

Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital promises to be a turning point in contemporary social theory.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Vivek Chibber is Associate Professor of Sociology at New York University. He has contributed to, among others, the Socialist Register, American Journal of Sociology, Boston Review and New Left Review. His book Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India won the 2005 Barrington Moore Book Award and was one of Choice‘s Outstanding Academic Titles of 2004.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1844679772
• ISBN 13: 9781844679775
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 306
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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