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Author:   Sucheta Mazumdar ,  Vasant Kaiwar ,  Thierry Labica
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9780415547406

ISBN 10:   0415547407
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   15 September 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Geographies of Otherness 1. Coordinates of Orientalism: Reflections on the Universal and the Particular Vasant Kaiwar, Sucheta Mazumdar 2. Locating China, Positioning America: Politics of the Civilizational Model of World History Sucheta Mazumdar Part 2: Spectres of Revolution and the Orientalist Turn 3. The Domination Unthinkable: French Sociology of India in the Mirror of Max Weber Roland Lardinois 4. The Question of Orientalism in Pan-Islamic Thought: The Origins, Content and Legacy of Transnational Muslim Identities Cemil Aydin 5. Iranian Modernity in Global Perspective: Nationalist, Marxist, and Authenticity Discourses Afshin Matin-Asgari 6. Marxism(s), Revolution, and the Third World: Thoughts on the Experiences of Successive Generations in Europe and East Asia Pierre Rousset Part 3: The Dialectic of Capital and Community-Authenticity 7. The Cultural Fix? Language, Work, and the Territories of Accumulation Thierry Madjid Labica 8. Hybrid and Alternative Modernities: a Critical Perspective on Postcolonial Studies and the Project of Provincializing Europe Vasant Kaiwar

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From Orientalism to Postcolonialism: Asia, Europe and the Lineages of Difference offers a series of rich, insightful, and probing reflections on the contemporary state of postcolonial theory. Taken as a whole, the book is a fitting homage to Foucault's great insight concerning the inherently distortional nature of all classification. The essays collected here urge us to confront the ways in which our most trusted ideational schemes are predisposed toward arbitrary and prejudicial modes of conceptualizing otherness and difference. This pathbreaking anthology is must-read for scholars working in the humanities and social sciences - Richard Wolin, Distinguished Professor of History, The Graduate Center, City University of New York Exposing the scandalous persistence of Orientalism in the human sciences, this volume shows how postcolonialism institutionalizes the very formation it claims to critique. Going beyond the cultural-academic and political-administrative co-ordinates of Orientalism as delineated by Edward Said, the contributors demonstrate how Orientalism endures through Occidentalism, Orientalism-in-reverse, and self-Orientalisation. Srinivas Aravamudan, Dean of Humanities and Professor of English, Duke University

<p> From Orientalism to Postcolonialism: Asia, Europe and the Lineages of Difference offers a series of rich, insightful, and probing reflections on the contemporary state of postcolonial theory. Taken as a whole, the book is a fitting homage to Foucault's great insight concerning the inherently distortional nature of all classification. The essays collected here urge us to confront the ways in which our most trusted ideational schemes are predisposed toward arbitrary and prejudicial modes of conceptualizing otherness and difference. This pathbreaking anthology is must-read for scholars working in the humanities and social sciences - Richard Wolin, Distinguished Professor of History, The Graduate Center, City University of New York<p> Exposing the scandalous persistence of Orientalism in the human sciences, this volume shows how postcolonialism institutionalizes the very formation it claims to critique. Going beyond the cultural-academic and political-administrative co-ordinates of Or

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