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The Crises of Civilization: Exploring Global and Planetary Histories

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Societies that have long wrestled with the legacies of colonialism now confront both a crisis of globalization and a crisis of climate. This collection of essays by a leading scholar of postcolonial studies and environmental humanities examines these distinct - but interrelated - crises side by side. The first series of essays, 'Global Worlds', details how varied ideas of civilization and humanism have shaped ideas about a global humanity in the lingering twilight of the European empires - and outlines the conflicts and connections that arise from global encounters in our postcolonial age. The essays of 'The Planetary Human' explore the significance of planetary climate change for humanistic and postcolonial thought. The crisis of climate change demands not only critiques of capitalism and inequality, but also new thinking about the human species as a whole -- and about our patterns of justice, our writing of history, and our relationship with nature in the age of the Anthropocene.

Table of Contents:
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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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780199486731
  • Publisher: OUP India
  • Publisher Imprint: OUP India
  • Height: 225 mm
  • No of Pages: 321
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Weight: 476 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0199486735
  • Publisher Date: 14 Feb 2019
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Exploring Global and Planetary Histories
  • Width: 148 mm


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