First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential
"Provincializing Europe" addresses the mythical figure of Europe
that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many
histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This
imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, is built into the
social sciences. The very idea of historicizing carries with it
some peculiarly European assumptions about disenchanted space,
secular time, and sovereignty. Measured against such mythical
standards, capitalist transition in the third world has often
seemed either incomplete or lacking. "Provincializing Europe"
proposes that every case of transition to capitalism is a case of
translation as well--a translation of existing worlds and their
thought--categories into the categories and self-understandings of
capitalist modernity. Now featuring a new preface in which
Chakrabarty responds to his critics, this book globalizes European
thought by exploring how it may be renewed both for and from the
margins.
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